Jim Hodges
Jim Hodges
James Hovis "Jim" Hodgesis an American politician who was the 114th Governor of South Carolina from 1999 to 2003. Hodges is the only Democrat to serve as governor since 1987...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 November 1956
CountryUnited States of America
happened start sudden thinking
There is a synchronicity: you start thinking about something and all of a sudden it's everywhere. It happened to me with the mirrors.
range work
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
works
My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
strong perfect feelings
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.
next lineage standing
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
growing-up writing emotional
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.
emotional landscape pieces
Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
mirrors perfect waiting
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
relationship hands drawing
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.
holding-on interest evidence
I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
moving long firsts
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
should reactions subtle
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
work work-out next
Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.