is a tiny peice of newsprint with the word "real" printed on it real?  is an image on a video screen real?  what if it's a live feed from a active camera?  does reality change when the same image is fed from a recording?  what if the image is played on the screen from a recording and the image is recorded by a camera and the new recording is played on the screen?  are the lights on your computer screen forming an image of real that you consider to be real? print the image of the word "real" from this page with your computer printer and then decide.  if you write the word "real" by hand is it the same "real" as every one you see here on your screen?  could i continue asking these questions until it just doesn't matter anymore?

[above: real.  close-ups of installation views with television, video camera, newsprint]