Just as Burroughs and Gysin had deconstructed narrative structure through their cut - ups, Hawkins continually reconstructs himself as an artist with a practice that is remarkably unified within constant yet fluid
shifts over time and among genres, techniques, and
mediums.
Lives and works in Paris since 2011) enacts the
shifts of originary forms
over time in his work, using the movements between
medium, in sound, image, objects, text, painting and drawing to form new material and technological genealogies, and to suture the physicalization of matters with philosophical and spiritual ideas about life and death, their commitments and their inevitabilities.