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I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

Jim Hodges

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Jim Hodges
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: November 19
Politician
Lancaster
South Carolina
James Hovis Hodges
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But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
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Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
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When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
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I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
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Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.
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I think that some works are more accessible than others.
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As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
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I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
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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.
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When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
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However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
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