Jae Hodges
             Author, Photographer, Genealogist, Traveler
The Abstracted Artist

Arches have been called the symbols of strength, openness, thresholds between worlds. I've been thinking about arches for recently,...

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...

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...

In his novel, Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald said "the border between life and death is less impermeable than we commonly think." (p283) This is...

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...

"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...

Whimsy -- "a fanciful or fantastic device, object, or creation especially in writing or art" (Merriam-Webster). I've been thinking a lot...

Cut Glass Decanter, Hernando, Florida, 2020 "What artists say about their own work is compelling because it tells us something about what...

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...

The Quaker Meeting, a painting by Egbert van Heemskerck the elder (British artist 1634-35 to 1704) Let's talk about those first hundred...

"The public, as whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognise extreme...

My thanks, Gwendalyn, for the terrific review of The Rose and the Whip today on your instagram site at https://www.instagram.com/gwendaly...

Chelsie reviewed The Rose and the Whip on her site Reading is My Remedy at https://readingismyremedy.wordpress.com/ yesterday. She is...

Did you see my interview with Amy yesterday in Passages to the Past at http://www.passagestothepast.com/#. If not, check it out. For my...

Thanks to Amy for the great review today in Passages to the Past at http://www.passagestothepast.com/#. Amy is also the wonderful lady...

Thanks to Patty for today’s awesome review of The Rose and the Whip at https://bookscookslooks.com/. In her honor, I’m sharing a recipe...

I've read two things in the last two days, from two different points of view, saying the same thing. Art is about feeling. Francis Bacon,...

From under the tutelage of a past fading perhaps, but never lost From out of a mirror we step On wobbling feet, walk ahead Seeing...

In my second novel, one of the themes I'm working with is seeing the past for what it is. Not truth, as truth exists only as long as the...

In a certain biography of an admired artist, one of the chapters begins with "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he...