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Origins
From ancient light and meteorite grains to footprints, creation images and Darwin’s branching sketch: different ways of investigating beginnings.
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Origins
From ancient light and meteorite grains to footprints, creation images and Darwin’s branching sketch: different ways of investigating beginnings.
Duality
Paired forms, opposing forces and complementary descriptions, examined through religious images, living structures and physical experiments.
Nonduality
Connections between things often treated as separate, approached through cultural knowledge, mathematics, physics and contemplative traditions.
Life
Fossils, living forms and images of life, followed by the unresolved search for life beyond Earth.
Death
Extinction, preserved remains, burial and remembrance: what endings leave behind, and how people respond to mortality.
Energy
Sunlight, living systems, fire and nuclear technology, alongside cultural accounts that use a different language for vitality and transformation.
Time
Cycles, calendars and physical limits, with trees, diagrams and cultural works that make duration intelligible.
Causality
Causes, predictions and the limits of knowledge, explored through philosophical arguments, divination, mechanisms and physics.
Memory
Natural records, cultural memory and recording technologies: how traces endure, and how people learn to read them.
Consciousness
Ten ordinary words organise an enquiry into self, relationship, attention, action and memory. This is an experiential archive, not a sequence of historical objects.
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Fossils, living forms and images of life, followed by the unresolved search for life beyond Earth.
Selected artifact · 004-001StromatolitesImage, story & sourcesAbout this archive
Life brings physical remains into contact with human representations of living things. The fossil sequence is not a ladder leading inevitably to us; each object preserves a particular part of a much larger history. Later works show people observing, depicting and assigning meaning to life. The final encounters turn towards worlds where the evidence is incomplete and conclusions must remain provisional.
Reading changes in bodies
Stromatolites, Dickinsonia, Tiktaalik and Archaeopteryx offer different kinds of evidence about past life. Compare what survives with the reconstructions built from it.
Observation and representation
Chauvet’s rhinos, the Ankh and the jellyfish image do not serve the same purpose. Their juxtaposition asks how people notice living forms and give them visual or symbolic significance.
Searching without declaring a discovery
K2-18b and Cheyava Falls concern the search for possible signs of life. A candidate signal or suggestive feature is not itself confirmation; follow the source record and competing explanations.
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