Sculpting a journey: art, life and faith

Hello there, my name is Andreas Huebert. I am a contemporary artist—a sculptor.

 About The Messenger cover photo: I chose this picture because people ask me about it. It is an abstract two-foot-tall indoor piece, but in my imagination, it is about a mile high. It is called “Secret Place.” We all need places like that sometimes in our lives where we can escape and speak out all our needs to God and be, so to speak, recharged by him.

I was born in Central Asia, in Kyrgyzstan 51 years ago. I started to sculpt at a very young age, but unfortunately, stopped doing it when I became a teenager.

When I was 20 years old, we immigrated to Germany because of my dad’s German roots.

I lived in Europe for almost fourteen years where I learned to work industrially. My calling for art was still there—sleeping in me deep down.

When, finally, in 2008 I came to Canada and rediscovered my calling for art, it just came back to me subconsciously. Without any reason, I just started to sculpt again, and I wanted to discover new media and techniques. Parallel to this, I got married to a wonderful woman—to the love of my life, and during the next two years, two wonderful sons were born to us.

Three years ago, I became a Christian because of a very powerful calling—the calling of God.

Even though my style in art doesn't include Christian themes, I still believe that my ability to create art is a gift from God. It is like one of the languages that I can speak.

Or because I like to cook as well, my artwork could be compared to my menu of signature meals. You see, in those cases, we can’t apply Christian or not Christian themes—it is just there.

Of course, because of the type of art that I do and belonging to God’s kingdom now, a degree of appropriate interpretation is necessary.

Andreas works in his studio.

But the variety of the themes could be as wide as the creation itself. In fact, as the Bible tells us, that God put life in us by breathing his breath in us. He is the creator. And so, we became the creators as well. That is, creators of the many things that we live by: art, science, and all the technologies in all possible aspects of our lives.

Now, it is only up to us, how we use our talents, our creations, and our inspirations. Do we thank God for it? Do we support his kingdom? Financially or spiritually? I think this is the right thing to do. To thank the Lord for everything we have, and I do thank him!