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Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Jim Hodges
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Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
Jim Hodges
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I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
Jim Hodges
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I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
Jim Hodges
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I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
Jim Hodges
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However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
Jim Hodges
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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.
Jim Hodges
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But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
Jim Hodges
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There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
Jim Hodges
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For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Jim Hodges
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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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