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.

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Nighthawk

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Pâro

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Elsewise

Trueholding

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Lyssamania