Fake news is not a new phenomenon within the landscape of American consumer culture. Like clickbait and visual spectacle, it functions as one of many persuasive tools employed to capture attention and shape perception. Embedded within contemporary culture, augmentation often prioritizes surface appearances, yet these transformations can produce significant and frequently overlooked consequences.

Exhibited in Ventura, California, as part of the group exhibition Click_Bait, this work was constructed from party balloons and frozen in time. The resulting forms emphasize the unpredictable and temporal nature of attempts to augment or manipulate reality. As fake news has become a persistent feature of partisan discourse, appearances are increasingly subject to fabrication and distortion. The lasting implications of these manipulations often remain unresolved until the conditions that produced them have shifted, leaving their substantive consequences open to future scrutiny and interpretation.