David T. Hanson: Witnessing Wasteland Born in Billings, Montana, in 1948, David T. Hanson’s artistic journey began not with a formal education or a grand ambition, but with an unsettling encounter – a stark vista of industrial decay amidst the vast Montana landscape. This initial observation, a collision between the rugged beauty of the American West and the brutal realities of resource extraction, would become the defining theme of h…