Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Kerisl

n.
the sorrow of imagining the wealth of knowledge forever lost to history—knowing we’ll never hear the language of the Etruscans, the battle cry of the Sea Peoples, or the burial chants of the Neanderthals; that we’ll never read any more than a fragment of the works of Blake, Sappho, Aristotle, or Jesus; or enjoy the untold treasures of so many burned libraries and forgotten oral traditions and unrecorded songs—any of which might have made up the cornerstone of the canon, that we’d all be able to quote by heart and couldn’t imagine living without.

A contraction of Kergeulen Islands. Roughly equidistant between Australia, Antarctica, and Madagascar, they are the only visible remnant of the Kergeulen microcontinent, which was submerged some twenty million years ago. Three times the size of Japan, it was once covered in dense conifer forests, with peaks reaching 2,000 meters above sea level, populated with strange and nameless fauna that must have called it home, before all traces were lost beneath the waves. Pronounced “kair-ahyl.”

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Thwit

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

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter

Aesthosis

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

La Gaudière

The Meantime

Desanté

The Til