Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Backmasking

n.
the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth—a burned-in image of grass-stained knees, graffitied backpacks, or handfuls of birthday cake, superimposed on an adult with a mortgage, or children of their own.

In audio recording, backmasking is a technique wherein a sound is deliberately recorded backward, so it’s only intelligible when played in reverse.

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Exulansis

Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

Heartworm

Chrysalism

Etherness

Wellium

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Dorgone

La Cuna