Artist/poet George Quasha's axial video "I Don't Understand Language" (Verbal Object 7) (2005) presents 9 year-old Marie Uridia, born in the Republic of Georgia and living in Barrytown, New York, saying “I don’t understand language” in English and in Georgian. The sentence, like the Liar’s Paradox (“This is a lie”), is self-negating, yet has a non-rational logic of its own, especially when spoken aloud by a person. The statement is replayed 12 more times, each slowed down by 10%, then to 5%, then to 1%. The original statement of approximately 6 seconds at a speed of 1% takes some 8 minutes. At what point does the statement cease to be perceived as language (at which point it becomes “logically” true but incomprehensible)? Liminality: There are thresholds, for instance, where one begins to supply the meaning because one knows it already, or where one stops doing that because the sound is interesting or strange or animal-like. At some point the face is more “linguistic” than the sound, perhaps increasingly, as qualities become visible only under the artificial condition of slow-motion with its eerie beauty. If you gaze into the eyes in the slower speeds, you can see something like preverbal brain activity communicating below the threshold of cognitive registration. (Original footage from 2001.) See quasha.com.