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Jim Hodges
American
Politician
About the author
My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Light
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Work
Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Waiting
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Art
#Ability
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
I'm an average person.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Work
#Meaning
I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Work
#Trying
#Development
#Growing up
#Autobiography
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Life
#Feeling
#History
#Change
Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Experience
Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Work
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#People
But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#People
#Emotion
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Work
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Expression
#Reality
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Thought
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Work
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician
#Time
#First
I think that some works are more accessible than others.
Jim Hodges,
American
Politician