Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Backmasking

n.
the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth—a burned-in image of grass-stained knees, graffitied backpacks, or handfuls of birthday cake, superimposed on an adult with a mortgage, or children of their own.

In audio recording, backmasking is a technique wherein a sound is deliberately recorded backward, so it’s only intelligible when played in reverse.

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

On Tenderhooks

Jouska

Sayfish

Fensiveness

Maugry

Harmonoia

Kuebiko

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape