Dictionary of Uncatchable Mass

In everyday language, a “mass” or “lump” is usually something tangible — a physical volume that can be held, stacked, or pressed together.

Yet we often use the same word for things that cannot be touched: piles of digital data, clusters of emotions, or blocks of text that form a paragraph. These are masses without stable edges, shifting between states of visibility and abstraction.

Dictionary of Uncatchable Mass is an editorial experiment that collects and defines these intangible lumps. Through text and layout, the book maps how mass can exist as feeling, information, or language, rather than as a purely physical object.