why

One of the things I have been planning to do during the walks is collecting “y” shaped branches. Pronounce it and you know why. I found the first one today.

There is something special about them. You can use them to find water or to build a catapult. I will use them to find questions. Big questions and small ones.

This is what Ilya Kabakov says about it: 

“So. The question has disappeared which was posed in previous times. ‘Why am I living in this world?’ It is primitive to such a degree that even the very posing of it is incomprehensible. But still in the 20th century people asked this question. And in the 19th century, they were completely permeated by it. And in previous epochs it was a fundamental question. ‘How’ was an animalistic question. ‘Why’ was a religious question. This meant that your human life was serving something bigger. The question ‘why’ often annuls the program of the question ‘how’. There is no single answer to the question ‘why’, but the very posing of such a question transports you to a different realm of existence. From the moment a being starts to ask the question ‘why’, he becomes human.”