Fake Art! is a series of statistical and poetic text analyses. Each page imposes audacious task re-assignments and structural manipulations to shift tone and meaning of the words. Book #1 focuses on interviews given by Donald Trump with the Associated Press and Time magazine in 2017. The new iteration may appear elevated, degraded, or a combination of these that can both satisfy and disturb the reader. The reader’s experience will depend on perspective and attitude—on the sum of one’s encounters with the world, and his or her confirmation bias.
The texts presented in staggered, narrative poetic form within are not redacted. Each such page presents a single transcribed response in its entirety as spoken by President Trump. Typographic formatting has been altered to deliver a more palpable facsimile of the conversation. —Chris Maddox
