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Physical and emotional places—time past and time spent, memory and remembering—coalesce in Jim Hodges’ poignant works. Hodges mines the ordinary materials of our domestic lives, creating objects that signify desire, longing, nostalgia, memory, and time-like souvenirs.
Hodges’ silk flower cascades and wall sculptures, delicate silver chain-link webs, mirror pieces, photographs of suburban homes like homey snapshots, and other works are firmly grounded in the real moments of our lives. Yet they are also gentle couriers for contemplation, enchanted objects that function in the realm of the souvenir, storing memories and signaling messages about lives past and lives being lived.
Hodges’ respect for ordinary materials such as paper napkins, silk flowers, or mirrors become extraordinary through his artistic transformations. Their multiple meanings in his work reflect his loving memories of growing up in suburban Spokane, Washington. Hodges often works on the flower cascades with family members and thereby forms a community of shared experience, enriching his own art-making life and in doing so, enriching the lives of those who work with him.
Hodges creates mementos that are elegiac tributes to the lives we live.