We eliminate all the awkward things, experiences that do not fit our belief structures. Even artists do that. They are still real. You build a whole scenario. It is like planting trees in a park, the setup may be fake, but the trees are real, and they do what trees do.
Nature parks are fake forests but they are still more real than virtual reality.
They are different forms of seduction. Mixed media, miniature diorama of landscape with running water, viewed through 12' x 10' lens. Well, in some way. In Landscape with Short River , when you recognize that the powdery landscape on top has a wheelchair supporting it, you make all kinds of associations, say with poor or sick people. That is not necessarily true at all.