Mickey Hubbard

Statement

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.

Artworks

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.