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Paul Chan is a multimedia artist whose work encompasses collage and drawing, multichannel video and projection, and kinetic sculpture. He is intellectually voracious, drawing on a wide array of philosophical, textual and visual sources. In 2010 he founded the digital imprint Badlands Unlimited. Drawing is an important facet of Chan's practice, whether in ink drawings like this, or in the drawings he uses for projections and animations. Oh What Glory Wholes 1, 2009, relates to a goup of linear ink drawings for which Chan drew inspiration from a range of erotic texts, from the Marquis de Sade to Monica Lewinsky. That same year, he created the video Sade for Sade's Sake and developed an erotic alphabet.