Eric B. Hanson was born by the beach and lives on a hill in Los Angeles. 

His practice interrogates the narratives embedded within overlooked and discarded artifacts, ranging from fragments of source code to detritus found in nature. Engaging with processes of collection, transformation, and material intervention, he examines the persistence and degradation of meaning as objects are abstracted from their original contexts. By emphasizing traces found in text and material, he investigates the tensions between utility and obsolescence, presence and erasure, and invites reconsideration of the boundaries between value and meaning. In his works, things meant to be ephemeral become stubbornly visible, but always partial, unstable, and open to reinterpretation.