Jim Hodges

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.