What can you learn from creating an Edgar Allan Poe portrait with 7,000 worms?

Making a giant, 8-foot-by-10-foot portrait of Edgar Allan Poe with thousands of earthworms was just as messy and complicated a project as it sounds, but it was also incredibly fulfilling. Here’s how -- and why -- artist Phil Hansen did it and what he took away from process.

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What can you learn from creating an Edgar Allan Poe portrait with 7,000 worms?