Primer, n.

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

The day-to-day occupies us with its imperatives: we rinse, repeat, carry on; functioning like (and now often through) automatons. It is easy to mistake this banality as all there is to reality.

But every now and then, an exquisite form will come along and rupture our rigid worlds. Be it verse that sheds platitude for profundity; be it art that cuts through the present with a glimpse of perpetuity — each gives rise to first and foremost questions about why, where, how we do exist.

The Primer is a textbook of these exquisite forms in their infinite variety. It collects the strange and yet beautiful: a décollage of literature, philosophy, art, music, and everything in between. It is individual and yet universal, tracing both what is beyond us and what lies deep within. It is ever curious, ever changing, in search of the ends of our origins.