The word "tantra," Sanskrit for "loom" or "weave," is a metaphor for Hindu and Buddhist spiritual practices that bring together rituals, texts and teachings to guide understanding of the universe and a person's place within it.
To create this group of large-scale drawings, Hawkinson constructed a contraption that functions in much the same way as a tattooist's needle. Using it to squirt India ink, he makes straight lines upon sheets of paper mounted on a turntable that's fixed flat to the wall. He drips his ink, spins the paper and repeats the process from different angles to construct complex geometric forms that bulge and bend across the picture plane —despite having been created without any curved lines.
Many are uncannily tiki-like — stylized and fetishistic representations of the human body. Others evoke the geometry and optical effects of Islamic tiling or American quilts. Each, constructed though the ritualistic buildup of lines, is a token of Hawkinson's idiosyncratic practice.

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