This vessel was built using the traditional and ancient methods of coil building. Through this meditative process, ancestral connections are drawn. The composition wraps around the form and features two women swimming surrounded by ocean waves and creatures. They reach toward one another in a serene pastiche of Michaelangelo’s Creation of Adam. This contemporary creation myth negates the male entity, a woman has been historically negated.
Creation Myth, 2020 Sculpture
Creation Myth, 2020
Ceramic vase with Sgraffito and Underglaze detailing
Dimensions: 8 H x 8 W x 8 D in.
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.
