Jae Hodges
la Yglesia de San Jose
Much was changing in the village of Antonchico as it entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century. By then, the town boasted of...
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. -Sam Levenson
Jae Hodges
Oct 103 min read
Autobiography
Two people gaze at a photograph--an open door to an empty room, a pair of shoes under the corner of an iron bedstead, a stack of...
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Jae Hodges
Sep 172 min read
Brilliant Birds
My grandson's first birthday is coming up, and I thought, there isn't anything that children like more than animals and bright colors....
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Jae Hodges
Sep 24 min read
The Chapel of St. Helen
There is a mission church at the edge of the village, on the road to the main highway almost dead center between Vaughn and Santa Rosa....
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Jae Hodges
Aug 182 min read
House in Auvers-sur-Oise
"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." Vincent van Gogh
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Jae Hodges
Aug 82 min read
Château d'Orquevaux
"Every moment is a window on all time." Thomas Wolfe As I prepare for my next artist in residence experience, I can't help but put it...
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Jae Hodges
Jul 264 min read
Shearing Shed
The building stands alone now, surrounded by a barbed wire fence from which even the laziest of sheep could escape. Beyond it the pasture...
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Jae Hodges
Jul 152 min read
Rearranging Nature
Tim Carpenter says, in his essay "To Photograph is to Learn How to Die, that intervention of the sort described by Flannery O'Connor as...
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Jae Hodges
Jul 84 min read
Sketchbook
"The camera is in some ways a sketchbook drawn in time and space, and it is also an admirable instrument that seizes life just as it...
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Jae Hodges
Jun 252 min read
Self Portrait with Things
I don't believe in coincidence. A month ago I started an on-line workshop called Photography to Get to Know Yourself. I thought this...
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Jae Hodges
Jan 9, 20221 min read
Solitude
"If solitude exists, and I don't know if it does, one should certainly have the right to dream of it occasionally as paradise." (Albert...
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Jae Hodges
Dec 11, 20212 min read
Nor Cast Your Pearls Before Swine
Knowledge and courage, like pearls cast before swine, should not be wasted on those who cannot or will not appreciate it. In my book, The...
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Jae Hodges
Sep 11, 20212 min read
American Phoenix. Rising.
New York City, May 2013 In 1905, George Santayana published the first volume of his The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress. In...
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Jae Hodges
Sep 10, 20212 min read
Owl Still Life
Homosassa, Florida, July 2021 In 2014, I visited the Orchard House, not for the first time but with a different perspective. For me, this...
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Jae Hodges
Apr 24, 20212 min read
From the Depths
Arches have been called the symbols of strength, openness, thresholds between worlds. I've been thinking about arches for recently,...
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Jae Hodges
Apr 14, 20211 min read
My Garret for an Ivory Tower
Virginia Woolf had a room of her own. Vladimir Nabokov said "If I do not demand an ivory tower it is because I am quite happy in my...
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Jae Hodges
Mar 22, 20211 min read
There's Something About Pelicans
I collect quotations. I started doing it when I was working--I had a wipe board on the door of my office and I'd post a new quote...
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Jae Hodges
Mar 10, 20212 min read
The Border Between . . .
In his novel, Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald said "the border between life and death is less impermeable than we commonly think." (p283) This is...
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Jae Hodges
Feb 7, 20211 min read
Look!
Vladimir Nabokov said "For someone who knows how to look, everyday existence is as full of revelations and delights as it was to the eyes...
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Jae Hodges
Dec 9, 20201 min read
So Little Time
"I have considered the eyes of the world for so long that I think it is time I had a little holiday from them. If one is not to please...
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