The un-reality of our present is really a consequence of the exponential multiplication of realities. In the not-so-distant past, most of our societal constructs — political bodies, media entities, and the like — helped shape our collective reality, which is an extremely important thing for a society to have if it is to work in a linear fashion.

Sometimes I think the things that makes art beautiful are the ways in which it represents reality. But other times, it is in the idiosyncratic way each artist’s world is not quite the same as the real one. (Drawing is by Egon Schiele.) pic.twitter.com/zWuGNUZw21— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (@RowanHLB) April 9, 2019