John Pazdan

One of my favorite books is Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”. I have tried over the years to write a music piece that nails the intro/prologue, and have never come close..My daughter Rachael, who is studying photography, alerted me to this piece by photographer/artist Jeff Wall….now I have something to look at as well as read when I take on the mountain again.

Wall’s piece is called ‘After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue’.

Here’s a bit from Ellison’s book:

“In my hole in the basement there are exactly 1,369 lights. I’ve wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it. And not with florescent bulbs, but with the older, more expensive-to-operate kind, the filament type. An act of sabotage, you know. I’ve already begun to wire the wall. A junk man I know, a man of vision, has supplied me with wire and sockets. Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and the light is the truth. When I finish all four walls, then I’ll start on the floor. Just how that will go, I don’t know. Yet when you have lived invisible as long as I have you develop a certain ingenuity.”

Sounds like the post grid future to me…