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2026  ceriously
            a trickster in sweatpants

2025  the high five proj.
            wrath of god
            homesick blues #3
            ain’t-merica
            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
            home series
            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

The Bob Dylan Project
(or Subterranean Homesick Bullshit) , 2024MATERIALS
MUSIC, SUITCASE TAG, CUSTOM CLOCK, 
POST-IT, OVERSHIRT, PAPER SIGN, PILLS, 
RACCOON, DOLLAR BILLS & DUCK FEET

DIMENSIONS
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In 2023, Photoshop released their Generative Fill A.I. program, which was built to analyze photos and either remove or add objects into the background. I fed this program lyrics from Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. Without any background photo to analyze, Photoshop generated random images (one image per verse) based on some of the nouns and locations in the lyrics, completely ignoring grammatical structure and most adjectives. I then attempted to recreate these images with objects in real life. The result is what a computer “sees” when it’s listening to Bob Dylan for the first time. The objects are presented with the song being played in the background either live or on recording.