Confidence Trick

A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam,scheme, swindle or bamboozle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. The victim is known as the mark, the trickster is called a confidence man, con man, confidence trickster, grifter, orcon artist, and any accomplices are known as plants. Confidence men or women exploit characteristics of the human psyche such as greed, both dishonesty and honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility,naïveté, and the thought of trying to get something of value for nothing or for something far less valuable.

This is just a definition but it relates to something someone at the writing center said to me about my work making me a "visual con artist." This idea had prompted me to look into some ideas about deception and the concept of truth in general. This also connects with some earlier ideas I've worked with involving relativity.