Primer, n.

the first, the foremost; something which serves as a first means of instruction

Exquisite forms tear a rupture in the banality that we mistakenly call reality. The day-to-day occupies us with its imperatives: we rinse, repeat, carry on; functioning like (and now often through) automatons. But there are times when mere subsistence is jolted by sheer existence — and there, the décollage commences.

Tear away the wallpaper and beneath there lies a masterpiece. Peel off the platitudes and profundity seeps through. Cut through the present and glimpse a moment of perpetuity. Each is a peculiar expression of the universal, giving rise to more questions than answers about the worlds we can and cannot see. What is the reality beyond this reality?

The Primer is a textbook of these exquisite forms, in all their infinite variety. Here, you’ll find philosophical questions pondered with aesthetic delight. Here, you’ll find beauty marked with strangeness in the proportions. Here, we’ll trace each inquiry to see where they lead, finding in their ends new beginnings — and in ours, lasting meaning.