Jim Hodges

Jim Hodges created this work when he was facing extreme personal grief and a sense of fragility as AIDS ravaged his close group of friends. At the same time he was exploring the use of metal jeweler’s chains, Hodges was drawing ink doodles of spiderwebs and blurring them with his saliva. In all his interpretations, the web came to symbolize the fleeting nature of existence and the strength to survive. “I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things. In fact, I created projects that were about not holding on to the evidence of things.”