John Hawthorne on Clubhouse

Bio

I start with impressions I have from my every day life. An ambient atmosphere or an energy. Suddenly I form an idea and begin to develop the translation of this idea through basketball. These vibrations, feelings, and emotions can be from nature, a landscape, it's my nuance memories in my head that help me to create a detailed creation. It's all about movement in the composition. I see myself as a stage director, an empty page when I'm going to write my formula, choosing all the actors or on the contrary, putting things into the shadow. For me, the focus is made on the quality of material I present. I decided to create something very authentic, elegant, and of course work around beautiful qualities of raw material. Something very simple, very easy to understand yet upscale. Having this power to create something with nuance and detail is something so magical. Basketball is magick. You need to feel that you are moving to places you need to move to in dreams. The result has to be enlightening.