ethan chan

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happy birthday!
marry me, archie
this song will bring you
good luck and happiness...
homesick blues #4
loneliness looks
prettier in california
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
tony
the high five project
homesick blues #3
sauce-merica
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
other desert cities
get yourself a lawyer
& a gun
hungry man
anthem
johanna’s not here
over yonder by the prairie
meanwhile at the antecedent
of impending doom
white light/white heat
liquid ecstasy/dirty dreams
for wile e.
wild, west
made in china, revisited
hail to the king
tea for masochists
american pie
not your country
the saint, the villain
& the antihero
stolen bike
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

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
VARIABLE
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.