Ancient texts often become incomprehensible across time because context disappears. The words remain intact; the world that produced them does not.
Syntax Error extends this problem beyond religious or historical texts into everyday communication. Words are not fixed containers of stable meaning. They depend on context, structure , and Time. Remove context, rearrange structure carelessly, or transport language across time without reinterpretation, and misunderstanding becomes inevitable because meaning itself is contextual, structural, and ephemeral, not self imposed.
The error, then, is not ignorance but inattention. A laziness to discover. Uncover. We then impose contemporary frameworks instead of investigating the conditions that shaped the original utterance. We assume shared references that no longer exist. As language evolves through time, meaning shifts (Semantic Bleaching). What is remarkable is not that communication breaks down, but that it ever succeeds at all.
This instability becomes legible through form. Garments shift meaning depending on the context they exist in, just as language does. Hand-painted text reads coherently on flat fabric, then fractures on the moving body (words breaking apart as context and structure shifts from static to kinetic)
Buttons carved with ambiguous symbols resist fixed interpretation, requiring active engagement from the viewer. Seams deliberately miss alignment, creating visual stutters and moments where connection attempts but fails despite correct structure.
Controlled error, distinguished from accident through repetition, the work invites slower engagement, where understanding is constructed rather than assumed.