The sea in different languages
An exploration of the impossibility of verbalizing the meaning of an abstract place, a defective documentation of how others experience and remember. The sea as something much closer to a feeling than to a concrete or definable site that leads us to juxtapose vague words and open thoughts in an attempt to grasp our full experience of it. A process of coming closer to the several ways in which we archive memories and express them in a more connotative or denotative way in order to portray the fictional realities of our experiences.
live by the sea moving foam
ultramarine
vast
Virginia Woolf’s novels
Finland
hometown
city
dirt diseases
no wet no swimming
Greece
strong
loud
green plants jellyfishes waves
all around your body
stay in forever right element it has to be cold jump in run in
feels good
nicer than the air be a fish, not a bird Germany
sun
waves peace
blue tranquility happiness
summer Portugal
fish
power big sex roughness
blue
small Austria-Hungary
sound
white
bird
foam
France
big freedom
deep blue fish funny summer Spain
vacation family all together 4 years old swim
calm relaxing every year memories Greece
huge
area
without anything child friend
blue
everywhere calm no waves
family
swim 40
jellyfishes
with a hat water like eternity Pierrot le fou a little poetic Belgium
blue color surface unending see whatever movement waves summer travel
deepness Hungary
waves blue turtles
snorkeling
really really blue real colour turquoise Finland
seaside in the cold no people few couples dogs wind huge waves windsurfers the winter its nature its strength Belarus
no one
cold bathing swimming sitting
animals
trash
cold sand grey
windy
dead brids dead fish cold Germany
freedom
cold
salty
home Portugal
home
harbor
good
France
many fishes party big dolphins
sun blue boats south Spain
hometown fish with a stick
kid
jellyfish bite
rocks
no sand not good no
far swimming
thin sand surf
not sticky really
good
too many people nothing bad food after hungry Morocco
travel the huge floating
mysterious place
never endless first memory will never discover the whole world of the sea Hungary
very very long
dangerous
no sea
so far
nature
France
sun beach
salt sports
water surf fish
Portugal
far away holidays coral red water relaxing enjoying
blue
salty some stones toxic not real sea stars bikini being happy
Germany
distance calm
driving
far
nature
Netherlands
sun
south
cold drinks party
all day sleeping Spain
Sofia Pires 2013