HR Hegnauer

from "Notes from My and Case File"

Monday, June 4, 2012; 8:29 pm

It has been exactly one year since I began my meditation on the word and. And heres what I think in this minute: Can a human investigate an and? Sure. Can a human understand an and? No. The most accurate possibility can only be an attempt--a gesture--but I'd be kidding myself to think that I'd ever fully understand and's ideals. But maybe full comprehension is not the point. The point is to believe that the language is trustworthy during the moment of sound. That is to say, how can a human stand next to another human if they cannot trust the language? This is our common neutral zone--this is our and--this language  and sure its fluid and mutable, but its all weve really got.

I want all of my work to be an experiment around the word and. And how I might make more genuine attempts towards its ideals.