Mickey Hubbard
My inspirations are drawn from nature, mathematics and science. These
inspirations are combined with my own experiences and emotions,
creating a union between what is seen, what is known and what is felt
internally. As an artist, my goal is to create for the viewer,
visually, the concept that art, mathematics and science display a
fundamental connection conveying the idea that all three encompass
more than what can just be seen. I believe that art is an intrinsic
aspect of all visual experiences and mathematics can provide a basis
for understanding and recreating those same experience.
Although not a mathematician, my love of things mathematical and
geometrical has always found its way into my artwork, often
planned, but sometimes unexpectedly. During the pandemic, I found
myself returning to explore mediums from my past. I was drawn to
creating a new form of a hyperbolic creature, a hyperbolic crab
vessel. With nods to the rich history of Native Peoples' vessel
creations, as well as to the Pacific Northwest's natural world, I
used the element of hyperbolic growth in my crochet stitches,
increasing and decreasing them to create, in fiber, a "crab
vessel" soft sculpture.