Jae Hodges
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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. -Sam Levenson
Jae Hodges
- Aug 18
- 2 min
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 8
- 2 min
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 26
- 4 min
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 15
- 2 min
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 8
- 4 min
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 25
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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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Jae Hodges
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
Whimsy is as Whimsy Does
Whimsy -- "a fanciful or fantastic device, object, or creation especially in writing or art" (Merriam-Webster). I've been thinking a lot...
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Jae Hodges
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
The Weight of Beauty
Cut Glass Decanter, Hernando, Florida, 2020 "What artists say about their own work is compelling because it tells us something about what...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
On the Wretchedness of Revolutionary Art
A Single Panel of the Berlin Wall, Newseum, Washington D.C., July 2009 I've been going through old pictures of my time in Germany, just...
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