Born: 1956-11-19
Profession: Politician
Nation: American
Biography of Jim Hodges
Color is an intense experience on its own.
Tags: Color, Experience, IntenseWhen I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Tags: Art, Others, ProcessColor is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Tags: Color, Expression, RealityFor a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Tags: Next, Thought, WhileHowever, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
Tags: Expect, However, WorkI move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
Tags: Move, Sit, TimeI think that some works are more accessible than others.
Tags: Accessible, Others, WorksI think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
Tags: Color, Wonderful, YoungI wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
Tags: Evidence, Holding, InterestedI'm an average person.
Tags: AverageThere is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
Tags: Broad, Reaction, WorkWhen I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
Tags: Perfect, Waiting, WorkingI 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.
Tags: Change, History, LifeI 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.
Tags: Emotional, Trying, WorkIt'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.
Tags: Hand, Material, Mouth