👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little squiggle of a word – "navimages." Now, before I even begin, let me preface things by saying nobody actually
knows exactly what it means.
That's kind of the joke!
Basically, and here's my absolutely reasoned extrapolation (lean in close—nobody's kidding about this definition really), a “navimage" is essentially… a digitally rendered, aggressively unsettling, almost aggressively pretty, ghost imprint of somewhere you never actually physically went. Think about it: we obsessively document our travels through photos and videos. They capture the place , right? But what about the... residual feeling, that faint echo of your own presence within that space? A "navimage", according to my utterly legitimate guess here, is what happens when that residual feeling gets shoved into a 4096x2160-megapixel, slightly hallucinatory, and probably very grey picture. Basically, the prefix 'navi-' (short for navigational) suggests direction and mapping of experience—and then you throw in the suffix '-mages', which just immediately brings to mind trickery, illusion, and maybe a little bit of the uncanny valley. It's as if your past self has somehow bled into that photograph, a barely perceptible shimmer of your awkward, sweating, slightly sunburned form. And it knowingly stares back at you with an unsettling knowing. There isn’t a formal
