![]() ![]() “You don’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg,” he answered… this time. When asked where he draws his inspiration, he tends to just laugh. Then, in 2009, Hobbes officially made sculpting his full-time career. ” He found himself further devoted to the hobby as the sculpey actually belonged first to his older brother who refused to let him play with it, admonishing Hobbes would “mess it up.” When he was 17, Hobbes was visiting an art gallery when he looked around and decided he might be able to turn his hobby into a real livelihood. So I played around with and made my own toys out of sculpey. “We were very poor, and my family couldn’t really afford toys. ![]() He first began sculpting as a small child. His, very much like his sculptures, is a masterfully altered reality. You never know whether you’re getting an accurate portrait of reality or one that’s been morphed and molded into something far more interesting. Born in Mexico, then (as he tells it) raised by a merry band of feral pigs in Northwest Arkansas, Hobbes is an often barefoot, occasionally axe-wielding intellectual giant who weaves one hell of a tall tale. Hobbes Vincent is Dallas’ and Art Con’s resident enigma. ![]()
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