Art in the San Francisco Bay Area

His introduction to filmmaking was through making a short experimental documentary about one of his sculptures, an art car called the Trojan Horse.

Writer and critic Thomas Albright describes the piece in his book Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980.

In the early 1960s, inspired by the folk idols used in pagan rituals and primitive religious processions, Hobbes began adding wheels to his mutilated everyman and deformed earthmothers, and rolling them around in the streets.

His most ambitious parade sculpture was the Trojan Horse, a horrendous tableau of mythological monsters that rose from Procrustean slags of plexiglass attached to a stripped-down autochassis.