Origins
The beginning of everything. From the Big Bang to the formation of Earth and the dawn of life.
"Before history began, there was the Origin. A sequence of cosmic accidents that led to us."
nothing
A frame around nothing, asking what it means for anything to begin.
We cannot see the beginning itself, but the CMB is the oldest light we can see.
Cosmic Microwave Background
The oldest light in existence, forming the edge of the observable universe and carrying the universe’s first memory.
Where did life come from? Could it have come from another solar system?
Murchison Meteorite
A rock older than the Sun itself, carrying potential seeds of life from beyond our Solar System.
While the ingredients may drift between stars, the only known recipe for life requires a single, fragile planet.
Earth
The living blue world where every human story has taken place.
The story of life eventually becomes the story of a specific upright ape, walking away from the trees and into history.
Laetoli Footprints
Three barefoot hominins, frozen mid-stride in East African ash, marking some of the earliest steps in our shared human journey.
We did not just walk; we left a mark, realizing that a hand pressed against stone could outlast the hand itself.
Cueva de las Manos
Thousands of painted hands and hunting scenes, layered over millennia, saying in chorus: we were here.
Our curiosity lead us to the nature of time, realising that every end, is also a beginnning
Ouroboros
A serpent that devours its own tail, turning endings and beginnings into the same point.
We have always wondered about our beginning
The Creation of Adam
A painted moment where a divine touch gives human life a beginning—and hints that every beginning consumes what came before.
We persued skepticism, to the beginning of certainty, learning that wisdom lies in knowing you know nothing
Cogito, ergo sum
A single sentence that makes the thinking self the starting point for certainty.
Our methods of deduction created greater understandings on the origins of species and ourselves
Tree of Life (Darwin’s Notebook)
"I think…"—a hesitant notebook sketch where evolution branches into view.
"Origins - The first of the human archives"
Duality
The split between light and dark, good and evil, order and chaos.
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