Daguerreologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Daguerreologue

n.
an imaginary conversation with an old photo of yourself, in which you might offer them a word of advice—to banish your worries, soak it all in, or shape up before it’s too late—or maybe just ask them if they thought you had done justice to the life they built for you.

From daguerreotype, a form of early portrait photography + dialogue. Pronounced “duh-gair-uh- lawg.”

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Thwit

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

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Aesthosis

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

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Gaudia Civis

a close-up of a gear

Endzoned

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