Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane"

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/23/artist-david-henry-nobody-jr.html

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[sluggo]

I actually showed those signed photos to an art dealer recently and he said, “You better hold on to that stuff. That’s like getting your picture taken with Hitler and having it autographed.”

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[LurksNoMore]

I keep on thinking about Kurt Vonnegut’s like about this kind of thing: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

[Melz2]

@LurksNoMore

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

You beat me to it.

[sockdoll]

@LurksNoMore

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

This line stood out for me:

@David Henry Nobody Jr.

It’s like I hack reality, and then reality hacks back into me.