Craxis

a tall house of cards

Craxis

n.
the unease of knowing how quickly your circumstances could change on you—that no matter how carefully you shape your life into what you want it to be, the whole thing could be overturned in an instant, with little more than a single word, a single step, a phone call out of the blue, and by the end of next week you might already be looking back on this morning as if it were a million years ago, a poignant last hurrah of normal life.

Latin crāstinō diē, tomorrow + praxis, the process of turning theory into reality. Pronounced “krak-sis.”

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Ledsome

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Maugry

La Cuna

Wytai

Craxis

a tall house of cards