She Was Trying... — ethan chan

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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...
seconds
get yourself a lawyer...
hungry man...
anthem
johanna’s not here
(thomas series)
    pure evil

2023 meanwhile...
white light / white heat
liquid ecstasy...
for wile e.
leashed steam...
family dinner
love letters
wild, west
selections from the...

2022 china, revisited
steer / madonna
hail to the king
tea for masochists

2021 fighting the loneliness
american pie
not your country

2020 the saint, the villain...
stolen bike
just like a woman

2019 she was trying...
why don’t you just...
fat man & little boy
american reformation
made in china
19 transactions
sign language

She Was Trying to Convince Them That the Overwhelming Awe of the Supernatural Would Override the Fear of Death, But They Wouldn't Agree, 2019

MATERIALS
FABRICATED UFO & MOTION-SENSOR LIGHTS

DIMENSIONS
45 x 45 x 45 IN. (UFO)
INSTALLATION VARIABLE

A cheaply crafted flying saucer was set-up and camouflaged in a pitch-black room with the scent of grass and strong air flow. The audience would be free to roam around blindly & the spacecraft would only light up if someone stood right under it, following people with its spotlights. Only when they saw the object lit up would they be able to observe its smaller than perceived size and cheap construction resulting in some form of disillusionment.

(Detail, pre-installation at Keller Gallery).