Gold foil illustration of stars

Boats Against the Current

Holding on in the Rush of the Moment
a crowd of people in a subway

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb—for we have no word to speak about it.

Thomas Carlyle – On Heroes

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Plata Rasa

Cover image for the Plata Rasa word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Gaudia Civis

a close-up of a gear

Catoptric Tristesse

Cover image for the Catoptric Tristesse word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Heartspur

Cover image for the Heartspur word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Moledro

Cover image for the Moledro word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

Cover image for the Funkenzwangsvorstellung word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Nullness

Cover image for the Nullness word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage