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
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
- Sep 6
- 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
- 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
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Le Ricordanze, 9 Oct 1990
Prague Orloj, Old Town Hall, Czech Republic, 2012 Translated this means "the memories" and is from Giacomo Leopardi's poem of this name...
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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
- 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
- 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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Jae Hodges
- Sep 15, 2020
- 1 min
The Reassurance of Age
"The public, as whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognise extreme...
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Jae Hodges
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
Lidia Sitting Back
My thanks, Gwendalyn, for the terrific review of The Rose and the Whip today on your instagram site at https://www.instagram.com/gwendaly...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
Passage to a Past
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...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 26, 2020
- 2 min
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
- 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
- Apr 26, 2020
- 1 min
What's Important?
It isn't necessarily important to know that this guy is a collared aracari. A toucan by any other name is, after all, still a toucan....
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