Zoetic1: your portal to Zoetic Architecture and Arts, and portfolio of Michael Hawker
Zoetic Arts, L.L.C.
Artful Creations Inspired by Ideas
Welcome to Zoetic Arts. Offered are beautiful creations in art glass and other media, inspired by the ideas and principles of organic design. These creations will enliven any room with color, reflection, and beauty. Windows, cabinet doors, mobiles, garden stepping stones...the possibilities are limitless.
All items are designed -- and handcrafted -- by noted architect Michael Hawker, and are architectural, or nature abstracted, in theme. Every design explores various color and geometric pattern and is handcrafted with care and quality to become a unique work of signature art.
Michael Hawker was influenced by, and is carrying forward the tradition of, the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright who was well-known for his art glass designs, and integration of all the allied arts, into his buildings.
Look for other crafts too! Zoetic Arts provides graphic design services for anything requiring that creative flair, a logo, a newsletter or advertisement, publications of all types. Zoetic explores the creative in furniture and accessories with the same attention to detail as our glass and graphic projects.
Artwork and crafts are sold at shows and fairs, select retail shops, through our catalog, or simply by contacting Zoetic Arts.
Graphic design and customized art/craft pieces are provided as a service and are available on a per project contract basis.
Please call 314-713-5034 to request additional information.
You are also welcome to browse this website and see a sampling of work. Thank you for viewing and hope you visit again.
What is Beauty?
Beauty
Beauty consists in a certain naturalness – in exuberance – is a being in itself.
Beauty of form is always from within outward – the imitative of outward countenance
cannot live as the original lives because the light of the idea
is within shines afresh only from the original.
Beauty is a state of being wherein all is of never on and proceeds as the inevitable
from general to particulars – there is no confusion – its simplicity is not
merely plain but is often as delicately and completely
from within as any wild flower or noble tree.
By no contrivances can the inspiration be had that reveals Beauty at its source.
Only by being can being be perceived.
Only by feeling can knowledge of Beauty be made to appear.
Only by way of Love can either of these happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright excerpts on “Beauty”, June 1950.
About Zoetic Arts
The inspiration
Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, for over ten years now, Zoetic Arts was originally founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2004 by noted architect Michael Hawker. Perhaps following in the footsteps of Frank Lloyd Wright and acclaimed St. Louis architect William Adair Bernoudy -- both known for their stained glass designs -- Michael began designing art glass signatures into his buildings even before Zoetic Arts was established. His first commission was in 1997 ("Lotus" window panel shown at left).
And so it began...
After inheriting his grandfather's glass tools and learning the craft, Michael began creating. Starting with candleholders, mobiles (one shown at right) and suncatchers as gifts, he expanded his repertoire to include a number of items. These items became sought after and are now in high demand. Zoetic Arts was then established in order to make these beautiful designs more widely available.
Personally crafted by Michael
All the products offered are personally designed and handcrafted by Michael Hawker (shown at left) and Zoetic Arts artists and reflect a philosophy based on organic and natural design principles. A holistic idea inspires and explores architectural, spatial, and pure geometric in each art glass design. Also, each strives to express spatial and structural continuity, and be true to the total idea in every respect. We like to say that each piece has integrity.
"The square, the triangle, and the circle are the three geometric shapes that form three-dimensional cubes, pyramids, and spheres. Our entire world may be broken down into these root geometries. These pure shapes, combined with all their endless derivative shapes, are used as modules throughout our designs. Doing this maintains artistic unity to each pattern."
— Michael Hawker
Care in craftsmanship. The Curova I chair frames under construction.