“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth - it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” writes Baudrillard. The concern of modernism was iconoclastic, the shattering of ‘decadent’ illusions and conventions. Inevitably this iconoclasm became a convention, and when the illusion of shattering illusions is shattered we enter the illusion of “The Postmodern Condition”. These are baby steps towards ‘Pataphysics, and this was my first step away from strictly photo-realist painting. The image of the hand-painted reproduction of the mechanical reproduction of the digital code of the photograph is still an appropriation from the world of advertising, now of course re-photographed, re-digitized and re-assembled in red, green and blue points of light. The paint-tube is of course completely real.