an is that isn't always

A man, a Dictaphone, the desert. Then standing on a stepladder in a landscape, a cut-out of a mountain on his back, strumming his guitar. The thing itself and its representation provide the ingredients for a game with cultural references. How do you get a grip on the point in time when actual experience and premeditation meet? And how does that relate to our sound and image-based sense of reality?