and so to Camden, where American artist Jim Hodges has a lot to say and a lot of things to say it with. Hordes creates artifacts and then associates the feelings with these items. For example, flowers with which we associate life and love and all of that blossoming blossoms. However, Hodges lets the viewer create this imagery and then wistfully contradicts the initial feeling with a less delightful undertone. It's like taking and linking love with loss and desire with despair. In many ways, even the way the space is filled and cluttered, is again a sort of unsettling notion. Whether it is enough, (as it should be) too much, and a little smothering, is always lurking among, but then that is the essence. Whether making flower diaries from paper napkins or jewelry cobwebs. Pieces such as 'A kind of Forever' and 'A Line to You' demonstrate well what hordes is trying to spell out, until September at the Camden Arts Centre. Go have a look!
Text Katriona Flynn
