False does not mean ineffective

A persona can be invented and still earn money; a rule can be arbitrary and still govern a body; a fake archive can alter what a reader believes; a wrestling match can be worked and still require real competence; a fictional city can become a durable map for real practices.

Truth under mediation

Television, photographs, algorithms, institutional records and narration all claim to show something. The work keeps asking what each frame excludes, who benefits from the frame and whether a representation becomes more dangerous when it is convincing.

Productive uncertainty

The point is rarely to announce that “nothing is real.” Instead, the corpus differentiates kinds of reality: physical consequence, social recognition, legal force, documentary evidence, subjective experience and consensual fiction. Their collisions generate much of the work’s humor and dread.

Selected works

Crossings

Mundus vult decipi · Normative Collapse / Rule ≠ Reality · Documentary Instability · Reality / systems / possibility quotations

A real man who sounds fake

The King Baggot sequence is an unusually exact version of this theme. The historical Baggot is real; his faded fame makes him sound invented. Pseudobaggot is invented; his performance becomes materially real enough to organize a lair, an occupation and a system of violence. The sequence does not erase the real/fake distinction—it weaponizes the mismatch between truth and plausibility.