"Installation seems to be a material as much as anything else," Jim Hodges has asserted. The incredibly light touch that Hodges employs to create arrangements along a wall or out into a space is evident in the cobweblike forms made from thin silver chains that appear in the angles or corner of a room, or the hanging screens of artificial flowers stitched together to form a partially transparent barrier. [...] Not only is the arrangement of the components key to the work, but the procedures adapted from conceptutal art are apparent in the ways Hodges has developed of recording or mapping such work, which would cease to exist if the components were randomly removed. Demands for extensive remaking or detailed installation procedures could be seen as onerous for the collector; but they can also lead to a different kind of engagement between the work and the owner or exhibiting institution [...] "The idea of instructions can be very cold and analytical, and it can aslo be very quiet, personal and intimate". Buskirk, 2003, p. 152