Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Ecsis

n.
the haunting sense of mystery infused into certain random details that beckons you to wonder how it ended up here at this point in time—marveling at a patch of white on a dog’s chest, a bubble trapped in an old window, a glimpse of Saturn’s rings shivering in a telescope lens—knowing that behind the thing itself is a long chain of causes and effects that veers off into the shadows of prehistory, anchored somewhere near the dawn of time, even though the end result is somehow right there in front of you, shimmering in place.

Indonesian eksis, to exist, to be. Pronounced “ek-sis.”

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Sitheless

Idlewild

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

Plata Rasa