Jon Rafman, LEGENDARY REALITY (2017)

LEGENDARY REALITY (2017) by Jon Rafman 0:07 One day I’m sitting at Ben’s Deli when his voice comes over the loudspeakers, sewing together everything that I observe. Whatever the music touches gets embedded in an immense tapestry. And he is in it––a figure framed by the city. 0:49 Late at night, when I look out at the buildings, I see a face in every window looking back at me. When I turn away, I wonder how many go back to their desks and write this down. 1:27 I have not seen him in years now, but his words are in my blood and veins. They rise up in me and fuse together the horizontal and the vertical. 2:05 A warm feeling washes over me. I can make out the blurry outline of my glass chamber. Am I waking up, or going to sleep? 2:32 My memories break like a mirror into a thousand fragments. The line between inside and outside melts away. Images begin to seep in. 3:00 I hear his voice now, calling out to me from the tower down the track. It summons me down the passageway, which I did not take… towards the p