James Hovis Hodges Quotes

• I’m an average person.

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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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• When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

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• As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

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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 an intense experience on its own.

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• Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

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• For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

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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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• I move very slowly. It’s usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

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• I think that some works are more accessible than others.

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• I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it’s not screwed up by too many references.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I wasn’t interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

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

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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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• Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

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• My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

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• Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

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James Hovis Hodges (21)

Birth:	19th November, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

James Hovis "Jim" Hodges was born in Lancaster, South Carolina, USA. He is an American politician who served as the 114th Governor of South Carolina from 1999 to 2003. He attended Davidson College and transferred to the University of South Carolina, where he graduated with a BSBA in 1979. In 1982, he earned a J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law. From 1983 to 1986, he served as Lancaster County Attorney. He served as South Carolina House of Representatives from 1986-1997.

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