Greg Hanson - collage artist

it's all about being able to play as an adult well it surely is that they never really being remembered being interested in as a kid and in in art at all I don't remember ever doing this kind of stuff as only as an adult that you know I met somebody else along the way several years ago that thought this was fun and once I started doing it I thought yeah this is fun this is great stuff now can you imagine some people do this full-time for a living okay so here we got the country of Australia on this lady's head this is a kind of a good friday for either Friday or Saturday morning activity this neighborhood particularly has oh great good good garage sales and I usually find you have to go to about tender from sales to maybe ten garage sales in order to find one good thing that maybe I could use in one of my projects yeah great great you know they very seldom ever find this kind of thing as usual I start with my box I mean I ice this is the footwork for everything that I'm doing and once I get the Box ready and constructed in my background then I begin begin the process of my cutouts don't know who these people are but great great expressions sometimes I cut off the ears sometimes not I've never had a good pair of lungs like this I do a lot of stuff with with heads they truly hate to do this trim off pieces up okay I really like this this is perfect you know my bottom canvas is virtually finished I hit a problem no not virtually finished good any other idea maybe I don't have another idea I feel like my job is all about exaggeration and uhm I have lots of exaggeration I would not be a good minimalist kind of artist because I just can't operate that way it's just a you know when I guess exaggeration just demands you know something being overdone at least it does for me so I actually have to reach a point where I say okay enough is enough is enough because some of my pieces have been some that I just overkill they're just you know it's just like a fireworks explosion ten times over as far as I'm concerned when I first started doing this I didn't sell a thing didn't give anything away didn't sell a thing I I kept it me I liked it I really liked my stuff so it was a it was kind of a kind of an awakening that first time that I set up on Alberta Street and had my table out there and not I'm gonna lose some of this stuff I'm never going to have it again then I realized once people bought it and once once I realized it was going up on people's walls and they were going to be looking at it and kind of celebrating this little piece like I did then it took on a different kind of a different dimension and a different picture

Channel: Will Luers

Views: 64,388

Keywords: anatomy, art, artist, artwalk, collage, craft, documentary, etsy, josephcornell, oregon, play, portland, portrait, scrapbook

Id: hURBm8O6OFo

Length: 4min 29sec (269 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 03 2008