Erik Hanson's A Year of Playlists, twelve monthly drawings from 2007 chronicling Mr. Hanson's playlists with songs rendered as matchbooks, is a scrappy collection of strays, throwaways and disposables, tracking love found, lost, found, lost, found...:

in january I was shattered, depressed, still getting over the boyfriend who dumped me in paris a year ago, hence the composition is tight rigid scared, lots of sad songs and french music...feb too, in march things start to lighten up a bit, im feeling good about the paintings im making and starting to sell them, this is giving me more confidence, summer comes around and im really loosening up in the compositions, july i meet this brazilian guy, im really happy and loosening up a lot changing the sizes scales, adding lots of brazilian music ...giving up the patterns on the compositions and just winging it. Oct the relationship is feeling weird and lots of sad songs, nov its over but then a new guy comes into my life still experimenting with compositions and loosening up, dec...im really happy and it shows...well for me its all right there....

A Year of Playlists, distributed by Textfield, measures 14 x 11 inches, contains 14 pages and retails for $15.