Bob Hakun
Education: graduated from Kutztown University in 1976 with a BFA in fine Art.
Work history: Bob designed Halloween costumes and masks for Collegeville Costumes for 17 years. Bob worked as a computer graphic designer and pre press specialist at several printing companies for 20 years, retiring in 2016
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When War Came
My Father was born in the small village of Vysny Mirosov in Eastern Europe in 1910. During the first World War in 1915 the front lines of the battles on the Eastern front pushed back and forth through the village on several occasions. A grapeshot artillery shell crashed through the roof of the house and exploded in the room where my father and his friend were hiding. The iron balls exploded from the shell, scattering throughout the room, instantly killing my father’s friend, but leaving him unscathed. The trauma of the explosion, and the horror of the enemy troops and piles of bodies in his village must have made a profound effect on my father. Having witnessed war through the eyes of a child affected him in many ways as an adult. When I was growing up, PTSD was not a thing that was even talked about, but I witnessed many times that my father would become very emotional over some small “trigger” that would reignite his childhood trauma of war.
A hanging assemblage, using found objects
The Great Longing
I’ve known several people that suffered from severe Social Anxiety. It becomes a special kind of prison for them. They can see and crave the beauty of social connections and friendship all around them, but their fear of not being accepted keeps them from risking exposing themselves to potential rejection. For them, the world shrinks to a very small place.
Assemblage using a big rock and found objects
