A word that does not exist

This project combines artificially generated words and definitions with analogue pinhole photographs to create visual translations within the physical world. The images were produced through the long-exposure pinhole process, allowing for extended immersion in specific environments. The photographs present the body as a living object within space, often positioned in dialogue with the machine that records it. Text and image are displayed alongside one another, forming paired compositions.

The project interrogates the limitations of artificial intelligence, which cannot fully imagine or embody the lived realities it describes. By using machine-generated, non-existent words as prompts to direct bodily action within real environments, the work stages a tension between the unbodied logic of the machine and embodied human experience. When text and image are placed together, their encoded meanings shift and destabilise: words evoke personal associations, while images carry their own layered interpretations. Each photograph becomes a translation of language, and each word a reframing of the image, exposing how representation inevitably compresses and limits reality. Through this deliberate absurdity, the viewer is invited to question cognition, authorship, and the unstable boundaries between creation and lived experience.