Fusion

• Prize
• Photographer
  Eric L Hansen, United States
• Studio
  Eric L Hansen

This project, Fusion, is an outgrowth of globalization. National cultures are now engaged
in an accelerating process of fusing one with another. For example in restaurants we see
Fondue Chinoise or Asia de Cuba. Increasingly we hear ‘truck’ in the UK. Latte is now
permanent Americana. In France we wish each other bon week-ends!

This project is informed by globalization. Here, I meld oriental with occidental
aesthetics using lens-based art overlaid on painting. So it’s a fusion of cultures
supported with a fusion of media. We’ve all seen over-painted photographs… Gerhardt
Richter et al. But these are over-photographed paintings. I paint the backgrounds, and
then I overlay lens-based material on top of the painting. Please don’t ask me how I do
that. But nothing is appropriated; I create all of the materials. In the end, I print the
finished pieces in editions of 11.

• Awards
  http://ericlhansen.net/archives/802