Jae Hodges
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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. -Sam Levenson
Jae Hodges
- Sep 2
- 4 min
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 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
- Jun 20
- 2 min
Inventory
My next assignment for the workshop, Photography to Get to Know Yourself, is called Inventory. Using photography, we're to inventory...
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Jae Hodges
- May 10
- 3 min
Eye to Eye
The Tate Galleries define abstract as "art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of visual reality but instead uses...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 20
- 1 min
VIllage Wood
"What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality." Ruth...
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Jae Hodges
- Feb 23
- 1 min
Beyond Realism
Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, May 2023 I may have mentioned that I am fascinated by surrealism, by the artists like Dali on the one...
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Jae Hodges
- Feb 17
- 2 min
Exposure
I've become fascinated by collodion wet plate photography. My friend and mentor, Rebecca Pujals-Jones, invited me once for a day in the...
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Jae Hodges
- Dec 7, 2023
- 1 min
Celebration
As I prepare for my artists residency at the Chateau d'Orquevaux, I've been trying out different post-production techniques for my...
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Jae Hodges
- Dec 5, 2023
- 1 min
Illusion
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." Iris Murdoch This is a palm frond. I've...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 21, 2023
- 2 min
Hacienda
Sally Mann has said that "part of the artists job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 6, 2023
- 2 min
No Rules
Ansel Adams said, "there are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." And who decides what is a good photograph...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 4, 2023
- 2 min
The Simple Things
Paulo Coelho said "the simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them." Now that I've had some time...
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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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