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.”

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Solysium

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

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Arroia

people standing on a stage

Liberosis

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

Tarrion

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

Incidental Contact High

Cover image for the Incidental Contact High word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

The Giltwrights

Cover image for the The Giltwrights word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Watashiato

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

Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street