ethan chan

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all work:

2026
the battle of richard tuttle      
chiquita
hendrix
egg metal music
sex music
hubba hubba
lolly’s schnozzle
2 yr drwng
ain’t-merica ii
swan song, etc...
a trickster in sweatpants

2025
tony
the high five project
homesick blues #3
sauce-merica

2024
double-double
with teeth
the love of my life
the ultimate asshole
thank you, come again
lofano/marino
the bob dylan project
good year, bad year
from rags to riches... 
and rags again
get yourself a lawyer
& a gun
hungry man
anthem
johanna’s not here
untitled
pure evil

2023
meanwhile at the antecedent
of impending doom
white light/white heat
liquid ecstasy/dirty dreams
for wile e.
wild, west

2022
made in china, revisited
hail to the king
tea for masochists

2021
american pie
not your country

2020
the saint, the villain
& the antihero
stolen bike

2019
she was trying to convince
them that the overwhelming
awe of the supernatural
would override the fear
of death but they
wouldn’t agree
american reformation

writing
statement
(otherworldly truths)

It started out as a list of every “thing” I found beautiful, then as concepts and specific scenarios started to enter the list, it turned into a kind of rubric in my studio for subject matter and materials to amalgamate. A friend and teacher of mine once told me that when you look at something and think “that’s beautiful,” it’s an otherworldly truth being told to you. What a romantic fuckin’ thought! That’s what made me start doing it.

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Otherworldly Truths:
Long dinner tables with food, canned goods, the shape of a spider, Bonneville racecars, carhoods, blimps, pirate ships, gargoyles, tv static, Californian freeway clusters, snowmen, fake inflatable snowmen in CA, cuts of raw meat, the cargo of semi-trucks, the desert, signage, Marina City, state flags, flags of any kind really, empty movie theater seats, animal bones, watertowers, the blackness of tunnels, the surface of wax, the way they made sneakers perfectly in the late 90s, fish market stalls, satellite imagery of suburbs, the lyrics of Isaac Brock, big amplifier stacks, coffins, the concept of unconditional love, lemon-themed merchandise, the haunting writing of Meiko Kawakami, turtle shells all the way down, corduroy, flannel, cereal, stickers on a skateboard, stickers on a Fender Telecaster, Fender Telecasters, skid marks, longsleeves on short arms, pidgeons that act like people, toast, piles of laundry, castors on things that don’t need castors, last words & moonlight.

more writing:

i.      otherworldly truths
ii.     the high fiction project
iii.    following people
iv.    holes