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

Thanksgiving represents for me some of my happiest growing up memories. My grandmother's house was the traditional gathering place, with...

Joan Miro, Spanish painter, once said "painting or poetry is made as one makes love--a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds,...

Lines and shadows are everywhere. Lines are drawn from one point to another or to represent something seen or imagined. Lines are written...

Merriam-Webster Online defines the adjective abstracted as "expressing a quality apart from the object". As an artist, whether I'm...