"During my childhood I lived in fifteen different houses in the Midwest - a part of the country that feels as placeless as the rental houses my family occupied. As a result, I have always felt like an outsider observing and wondering about the area I was inhabiting. Each time we moved I became fascinated and haunted by the residual essence of the former inhabitants that still lingered around the landscape of our home.
"Sometimes the most exciting discoveries lie between 鈥榝ar鈥 and 鈥榯oo far鈥欌攊n the threshold between distorted content and content that is destroyed beyond all recognition."
"The Apollonian and Dionysian conflict of Nietzsche's fame is a reasonable way to frame my current work. If one does not easily tolerate Nietzsche, the koan 鈥淏oy Meets Girl鈥︹ or Siddhartha by Herman Hesse are other recommended starting places."
"My work balances on the thread-thin line between art and craft -- that seam line that holds our desires together rather than a space where hierarchy within expression feels necessary. Quilts are, to me, often a physical manifestation of our desire for order and repetition. My work often lives within the tension of our reach for perfection within human manual imprecision and embraces the beauty in letting go of our preconceived notions of perfection.
"This image titled 鈥楧eath鈥 is a lumen photogram. It is a scanned photogram of a dead leaf of cabbage exposed by the sun on a piece of photographic paper. It is a commentary on the pandemic and what climate change is doing to the planet."
鈥淎s an artist I have always felt my task is not to create meaning, but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.鈥 鈥 Todd Hido