My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
— Jim Hodges
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
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.
I think that some works are more accessible than others.
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
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.
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
I'm an average person.
But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
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.
Color is an intense experience on its own.
Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
