"river's revenge" (2004) was part of the "sculpture in & by the river" exhibition on the banks of the housatonic river in massachusetts on the grounds of the norman rockwell museum. the exhibition drew attention to the endangered river, historically and environmentally; thus, hodgson's work was a natural fit, with her interest in the history of the region and environmental issues. hodgson created a "snaking, writhing form made of new england house shingles, a testimony to the destructive power of floods," of which the housatonic has a long history. she initially used shingles as bases for sculptures but became "interested in them for their own qualities." "bore" (2005), exhibited in "sculpture in the public arena" in great barrington, massachusetts, is another lengthy structure composed of wood and shingles in a wave pattern, resembling an "undulating snake." it portrays a tidal bore, in which the incoming tide forms waves that travel up a river or inlet against the current. hodgson's wood and shingle sculpture, "all fall down" (2009), which was exhibited in "contemporary sculpture at chesterwood 2013", likewise alludes to an "uncontrollable body of water that is open-mouthed and ready to consume and inundate anything that comes across its path." her earliest undulating shingle sculpture, "surge" (2003), was among the works in the flux art fair (2016), in which art was positioned throughout the neighborhood in harlem.