Places Between is an ongoing project in which Hansen explores how video games fit into a larger art history.
"I recreate photographs as tintypes from my personal archive, which are rooted in formative moments in my life. The tintypes depict memories such as my childhood home, my best friend and I’s favorite place, and a trash beach in Brooklyn that became the focus of my thesis in college. While the tintypes are familiar scenes to me, they do not depict places that literally exist in the world. Each image is from a digital collage 'hand-stitched' in Photoshop that sources imagery from four different video games. Each new landscape that I make does not represent a scene that exists in the original video games, real life, or any other form. While my formative moments are often rooted in trauma, I reclaim these memories by expressing them through a new lens. This lens being video games, a medium that helped me escape into narrative-rich stories when I was otherwise very isolated."
