The Dictionary Document (2008)
The Dictionary Document began as a simple game with language. I wanted to see what happens when a portrait of a person is paired with a dry dictionary definition — a sentence meant to clarify, not complicate.
Some definitions feel amusing, others uncomfortably precise. And that is exactly the point: language, whose job is to explain things, suddenly becomes uncertain when placed next to a specific human face. As if, for a moment, it quietly admits its limits.
Here I’m close to a thought by Ludwig Wittgenstein: that the meaning of words doesn’t live in the dictionary, but in how we actually use them. Move the same sentence into a new context, and it starts to sound entirely different.
For me, The Dictionary Document is a reminder that people can’t be reduced to definitions. And perhaps a gentle irony aimed at language itself — always trying to pin us down, and always charmingly failing.
your partner is the person you are married to or are having a romantic or sexual relationship with
Bratislava, 2008
A telephonist is someone who works at a telephone exchange or whose job is to answer the telephone for a business or other organization.
Liptovská teplička, 2008
A planet is a large round object in space that moves around star.
Berlín, 2008
The mayor is a person at the head of a town goverment.
Liptovská teplička, 2008
An animal is a living creature such as a dog, lion or rabbit..
Berlin, 2008
A believer is someone who is sure that God exists or that their religion is true.
Ruský Potok, 2007
A fireman is a person (ussualy a man) whose job is to put out fires.
Liptovská teplička, 2008
