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
works
My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
range work
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
work work-out next
Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
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.
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?
thinking
I think that some works are more accessible than others.
thinking color people
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
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.
people emotion come-up
But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
art thinking architecture
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
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.