ethan chan

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2026  2 yr drwng
            ain’t-merica ii
            swan song, etc...
            a trickster in sweatpants

2025  ceriously
            the high five proj.
            wrath of god
            homesick blues #3
            sauce-merica

2024  double-double
            made with love
            with teeth
            “perfect” “people”
            thank you, come again!
            love minus lingo
            in honor of eric cartman
            lofano / marino
            the bob dylan project
            good year, bad year
            from rags to riches...
            get yourself a lawyer...
            hungry man...
            anthem            
            johanna’s not here
            untitled
            pure evil

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

2022  made in china
            hail to the king
            tea for masochists

2021   american pie
            not your country

2020  the saint, the villain,
            and the antihero
            stolen bike                   

2019   she was trying...
            american reformation

writing
otherworldy truths / statement

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