Eric L Hansen

Best advice you’ve been given•Engage fully with the process of making art and new work will appear as if by magic; cherish all accidents

Goals/Aspirations•This artist's life is a gift, and my goal is to live it fully and completely.

Favorite artist•Paul Cézanne, for his intensity and for the way he pushed back the boundaries of his time to enlarge painting’s domain

What are you reading•"Shaman" by Kim Stanley Robinson, who usually writes science fiction but here goes back in time to the caves at Lascaux and Chauvet

Hope to learn how to •Shoot and edit video

You spend a lot of time thinking about•The piece I’m working on

Favorite musical artist•I know everyone says they’re eclectic but I really am, from Rammstein to Rachmaninov. But just one? Probably Jack White

What do you do when not creating art •I hang out a lot with the poet Stellasue Lee, I am a serious gym habitue, and I love films for the visual storytelling.