“I could start fires..” I could start fires with what I feel for you. Destructive love. Engulfing flames. Burn the world until the ashes fly into space. Nothing left but feeling.

“So I lay here..” So I lay here curled in a home that is not my home (anymore). The sound of the memory. Tire whirring on asphalt. Echoing against the trees, becoming a hum.

“Why do you insist on shattering..” Why do you insist on shattering//hovering your boiling blood over the fire? The heat rises to your heartbeat to eat thru your arteries and pour from your pores.

This cup is one of 48 that make up the installation, “Fragments of Our Love Story.” These cups feature feminine forms that recall the Venus of Willendorf and other historical fertility objects. The carvings include many of my own writings and flow from one cup to another. Just as we hold each other’s stories in pieces and parts, the cups now exist throughout time and space, with many collectors. No two have the same words, making each unique in body, color, and content.

I Could Start Fires, So I Lay Here and Why Do You Insist on Shattering Triptych

$600.00

Alex Hodge

I Could Start Fires, So I Lay Here and Why Do You Insist on Shattering Triptych, 2019 Triptych

Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing

Dimensions:

Overall size: 5 H x 9 W x 3 D in.

Individual size: 5 H x 3 W x 3 D in.

Unique
Alex Hodge was always drawn to the arts and regularly channeled her creativity as a child whether in watercolor classes or scrapbooking with her mother. Hodge focuses on prioritizing women’s narratives in all aspects of her work. Through the decorative and symbolic details, she hints at narratives without completing them to invite the viewer to participate in creating meaning. The women she invents exist in the present but is of the imagined future in which we all have room to flourish, to tell our stories, to give and receive love, and to express the beauty and pain of the human condition. Fundamentally, her artworks are a celebration of the tenacity and vulnerability of women and clay, an interplay of history and hope.