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Phil Hansen
On Phil Hansen's Wikipedia page there is a lot of missing information about him and especially his artwork. Wikipedia has a few sentences in these three sections biography, career, and Grammy awards. The section that has the biggest gap is in his career they is nothing about his multimedia artwork and movements he has influenced or brought more out to the public. I found this gap fairly easily because all Wikipedia mentions in the career section is his time-lapse piece called Influence. How can a career only have one art piece and Phil Hansen has an abundance of art pieces that show his use of different intersectionalitys such as people who are struggling with their sexuality, gender, and the issues of nationality. This gap is important to fill because his art is a important peice of modern art and people thousand of years down the road will be able to still relate to these raw stories. On his website he has a few art pieces that prove that he is a multimedia artist. He uses the public to create his art pieces especially their stories on specfic limitations, struggles and challenges. These struggles and challenges are relevant to this specific time period where people wrote him stories about being openly gay, divorce, obesity, and about their child being Autistic.

Phil Hansen was born in the United States in 1979. Hansen works from the basement of his borther’s home in surburban St. Paul; Minnosota. He is mostly a self-taught artist, and learned the basics in art during high school. During high school he dropped out, to pursue his own way of art or technique instead, and to pay the bills he works as a full time x-ray technician at a trauma hospital. He first started out as a artist who had an obsession with pointillism. In high school this obsession with pointillism and making repetitive dots on a canvas created permanent nerve damage in his right hand resulting in a permanent jitter. In the pointillism page in in Wikipedia there is a gap because he isn't mentioned as a pointillism artist. Hansen created all of his work using dots at this time so he should be mentioned on the page. Once he realized he had permanent damage to the nerves in his hand he realized that he had to change the way he thought of art, he said in his interview with Tony Simmons on from Wired “ I couldn't do the pointillism that I loved, so I started experimenting with other methods where the shake wouldn't affect my work” In his Ted talk Hansen says how he was discouraged with his hand shake so he he took a few years off but he couldn't stay away from art so he decided to go see a neurologist about the shake. The neurologist told Hansen he had permanent nerve damage and when Hansen took a look at his squiggly line he said "Well, why don't you just embrace the shake?" The comment "embrace the shake" that his neurologist said stuck with him and showed in his artwork.

Through his inspirational TED talk many people came up to him and wanted to share their stories with him. He was most inspired by a lady who told her story to him who had stage three colon cancer. He decides to write her story onto a huge canvas with the other storys he had heard. He said to CNN "the only sound in the room was a sharpie scraping against the paper, but her voice never stopped in my mind." Hansen specifically wanted these stories to about facing limits because his Ted Talk was all about facing his limit of his hand shake. Hansen just wanted to connect with people through his artwork but his art work has turned into a documentation of modern culture and these stories in 1000 years will still be relevant and relatable. . One of the stories was "On paper, I have the perfect life. I'm married to a man who loves me more than I deserve, beautiful, healthy children, and a great career. But I'm in love with someone else that I can't be with and it impairs me everyday." These stories show our society and culture at this time from being openly gay, to adopting a child, struggle with obesity, and or haveing a child with Austism. All these stories raise questions in all different intersectionalitys. This art piece is called Refraction which shows over 1000's stories of challenges and it creates and picture of a 3 birds floating on top of water. Sophie141414 (talk) 06:22, 13 May 2015 (UTC)Sophie ReynoldsSophie141414 (talk) 06:22, 13 May 2015 (UTC)