Fata Organa

Fata Organa

n.
a flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room— their mind wandering away from whatever’s happening around them, their eyes lighting up with pensiveness or vulnerability or cosmic boredom—as if you could see backstage through a gap in the curtains, watching actors in costume mouthing their lines, fragments of bizarre sets waiting for some other production.

From fata morgana, a kind of mirage that warps the appearance of distant objects so that sailboats look like fairy castles + organa, methods by which a philosophical investigation may be conducted. Pronounced “fah-tuh awr-gah-nuh.”

Fardle-Din

Suente

Ochisia

Skidding

Foilsick

Fata Organa

Zverism

Flashover

Querinous

Antiophobia

Lookaback

Attriage

Hickering

Ecstatic Shock

Fensiveness

Amoransia

Midding

Soufrise

Ioia

Ringlorn

Kinchy

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure