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
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