Lucas Blalock's *555–555* exemplifies his distinctive approach to digital manipulation, where the artifice of Photoshop editing is deliberately left visible rather than concealed. The work plays with the boundaries between photography and image-making, inviting viewers to question the nature of representation and the constructed reality of the photographic medium. Blalock's layered interventions create a tension between the familiar and the uncanny, transforming the ordinary into something both playful and conceptually charged.