introspective look at

dark portrait of a woman's body art by Paparatzi Keith

Painting titled 'Naturally LV' by DaCre 8iveOne.

Pent Up by Sam Hodges (June 2015)

FOUR Different PHotogrphers, I respect!

photo: https://www.instagram.com/arkurwoodeneye/?hl=en

Delicateness within stabilizes the sense of who is beautiful and why. It is an essence this knowing. It is captured within Iris in this moment captured by Aarno Kurkela! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/29/18 

delicate beauty by danial gowans (2014)

Delicate Giorgia Soleri captured by Godfrey J. Massa in available light with a Sony a7rii.

the bride, Kim Thomas by Sam Hodges (July 2015)

Substance abused.

"The ambiguity of American life is a texture that cannot find its balance, see its blindness with clarity, or know the purpose of power as truth." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7.23.16

photo by Sam Hodges

Native man broken chains

Hidden Story in the Atmosphere.

In this photography Sam Hodges captured part of the complexity of being a Black man as opposed to being an African man in The United States Constitution in this piece titled: "Something beneath the surface."

Ignorance is not bliss.



photographer Sam Hodges - 'Caught up in the confusion'
 August 24, 2015 ·

 "Caught up in the confusion" as a title marks these days with a prophetic brush stroke. Young men and women are snared, it seems, in a trance convinced of about what is important without an introduction to what is important. The vague look in their eyes is fear, confusion, a desperation to fit in, and a strange sense of not being whom they believe they are with their gadgets and schedules.
Life isn't urgency when born in the wealth of a super power or is it what the powers outside of themselves say it is? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Dawn Wolf) 7/14/16

 

IN the Eye: the Unobvious Art!



photographer Sam Hodges - 'Stare at what's obviously in front of you.'
September 7, 2015 ·

"Stare at what's obviously in front of you!" you say?

There is nothing obviously in front of me! I see what I feared as a child, and as a man wanted to and learned to protect my children from in the day time and in the night time taught them how to surpass the night terrors.

I also don't see the obvious. It is obscured by what lurks in the dark and the grey of my inner world ready to bait the bear, outwit the fox, and seduce the snake within what the feline creature mistakes for being herself. . .
You are a master storyteller, Sam Hodges!  

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
7/24/16

 

In the Breeze

photography by Sam Hodges
July 22, 2012 

  

"Gentle prayers in gentle or tense moments are not about stress, but release into the unseen worlds, and admittance into the hallowed halls of stilled motion." - Gregory E. Woods, 2.18.17

What We Know We See

Sam Hodges
July 1, 2012 


"Suddenly and slowly there appeared a woman red of hair, pearl pale of skin, clad in a soft white cotton dress on a fallen tree that had seen and lived many years. When she appeared I saw the mist come from her. When she appeared on the other side of the veil someone else saw the mist uncover itself to show her. This magic has two views if the perspective of the mist, the woman, the fallen tree, and the surrounding forest are disregarded as trite, incidental, or insignificant.

Magic is perception. Illusion is the view from the mirror's point of view and surprise and revelation are a person's contact with specific lines of energies we cannot see, but know!" - Gregory E. Woods, 2.18.14

Mysteries Unexpressed Live Within Us

Sam Hodges

photo: Sam Hodges
 May 20, 2012 

  

"You cannot know what a woman is thinking if her presence asks more of you than your senses can tolerate. We have puzzled over this since we were boys, and it leads us on trails of discomfort, discovery, joy, revelation the same way esoteric knowledge unveils itself to a purely intellectual mind set in its ways. You can't size it down. The scope of perception is not a vehicle in the shape of a cone, a triangle, or square or even a circle. It is form without design, only depth and the perception of being. At least that impression comes from some of the mysteries we meet in our lives who look like women, but reveal themselves in realms demanding more of us than lust, brute force, talk. Who are we alive? those women ask of us, as that question simultaneously shapes us into the possibility of discovery between what is sacred within them!" - Gregory E. Woods, Sirmiq Aattuq Wisdom Keeper (2.18.14) 

Muriel stood there atop the roof the blue of the sky as a backdrop to the single most important figure above the city.

Gallery

Art of the Colors

Sea Horse by

Sam Hodges

October 1, 2012 ·

 

  

Tamara Adams's art work

 

Gift of the Eye: photography



photograph of Rubia Strings by Bruno Birkhofer



photographer Kirstin Anne Photo took a photo of

Sam Hodges

working
June 21, 2012 ·

 

 
 

 

GOOD WORK!



photography by Sam Hodges of   Melanie Radtke

  December 12, 2012



"i want to comment and share what comes to me, but i've taken it personal, and can't say the words of the stories coming from within both the subject and the style of language you, the photographer, used to tell stories about an experience, an event, a moment in these times!" - Gregory E. Woods, 2.18.14

Sam Hodges' photograph of Sarah Viscera (2013)

Sam Hodges' photograph of Alana Baker (Dec. 2012)

 

Betwix DARK & LIGHT

The story that sparked this reaction in me is about a New York city school teacher who a policeman arrested because he assumed the man had smoked a cigarette with marijuana in it... Read the story yourself. 

a grim spectre. photo by  Sam Hodges
July 29, 2013 

"Having lived in and visited countries that were police states it is astounding how easily it has been for American citizens to relinquish their legendary freedoms and fighting spirit. It was avoidable, but Americans at this time in history are deeply committed to being consumers and have developed a penchant for being afraid and making decisions based upon fear and denial . It is sad, but it could easily have been avoided. Momentum towards a police state is growing, but there is enough of an opportunity to regain integrity and become a free people instead of remaining sheep-like.

Speaking of sheep how much of this change of consciousness is related to the religion that encourages followers to become like sheep in need of a Shepherd?" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.19.13

model, Kim Thomas July 2012 in the woods in white wedding gown by Sam Hodges. 

A better quality image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68992703@N07/7623986500/in/photostream



... I know a man, a white man who would daily walk within two blocks of the White House smoking a joint. He got away with it, he told me, because the police would not stop an older white man in a $400 suit smoking a rolled joint. He said I couldn't do it. "You're suspicious from the beginning."

My friend wouldn't let me walk with him smoking a cigar because he said I attracted unnecessary attention to him. So, we agreed to meet in a park near the White House on I Street, NW and talk while I smoked my cigar, and he his 'weed'! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories