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

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 blue

friend 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 far

no 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 Pires2013