Feeling It
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,...
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Jae Hodges
Author, Photographer, Genealogist, Traveler
The Abstracted Artist
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
-Sam Levenson
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 22, 2020
- 1 min
George's Fedora
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...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 19, 2020
- 1 min
Seeing Past
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...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 17, 2020
- 2 min
The Art of Seeing
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...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 3, 2020
- 2 min
The Rose, the Whip and the Ties That Bind
House of Seven Gables, Salem, Massachusetts, October 2004 I found Lidia Wardell through her brother-in-law, Samuel Wardwell, the younger...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
Legacies
I've been thinking about legacies as the central theme of my next novel. The legacy as a physical representation of a family heritage,...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
Even on Our Greyest Days . . .
We can find a spot of color in an otherwise bleak world; we can imagine a better day, near or far, when a spark can light up a picture;...
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Jae Hodges
- Feb 23, 2020
- 2 min
Three Vagabond Women
In the cold and the snow of December 1662, three women were tied to the back of a horse cart, and whipped for the crime of being Quaker....
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Jae Hodges
- Feb 19, 2020
- 2 min
The Way Your Life Goes
I recently started reading The Lives of Lucien Freud by William Feaver (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019). I know his name, as an artist, and I'm...
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Jae Hodges
- Feb 18, 2020
- 2 min
White Horse Tavern
On Tuesday, May 5, 1663, Lidia Wardell was tried, convicted and whipped at the White Horse Tavern in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony....
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Jae Hodges
- Jan 26, 2020
- 2 min
Cezanne's Apples
I'm reading Francine Prose's What to Read and Why (Harper Perennial, 2018), a book that presents 33 essays on reading, and the written...
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Jae Hodges
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min
Anticipation
Holding my breath in anticipation of the final edits for The Rose and the Whip . . . anticipating what awaits behind the pulled shades,...
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Jae Hodges
- Jan 5, 2020
- 2 min
Contemplating Life
I recently read Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love by Dani Shapiro as part of my research for my next novel. One of...
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Jae Hodges
- Dec 8, 2019
- 3 min
Lingerie
Eudora Welty was both photographer and writer, and for this she has my ultimate respect and admiration. I recently read a critical...
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Jae Hodges
- Nov 28, 2019
- 1 min
Is it Painting or is it Poetry?
Joan Miro, Spanish painter, once said "painting or poetry is made as one makes love--a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds,...
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Jae Hodges
- Nov 23, 2019
- 1 min
Letters from the Past
The main protagonist in my second novel is a man named Martin Lovering. As it turns out, this man is my sixth cousin four times removed....
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Jae Hodges
- Nov 11, 2019
- 2 min
Lines & Shadows
Lines and shadows are everywhere. Lines are drawn from one point to another or to represent something seen or imagined. Lines are written...
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Jae Hodges
- Oct 27, 2019
- 2 min
Inhabiting Spaces
As I continue to work on book number two, writing and rewriting the first fifteen or so pages (now six or seven times, more or less...
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Jae Hodges
- Oct 8, 2019
- 1 min
Why "the Abstracted Artist"?
Merriam-Webster Online defines the adjective abstracted as "expressing a quality apart from the object". As an artist, whether I'm...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 5, 2019
- 1 min
To Outline, or Not to Outline! Is it a Question?
There's two camps on this, do outline or don't outline. Sounds simple, but I'm finding with my second novel in its early days that it...
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