your first parent

"There is nothing which can better deserve

our patronage than the promotion of science

and literature. Knowledge is in every

country the surest basis of public happiness."

— George Washington

Marsha Rinetti

Juan Marq

Henrique Bernardelli

your first parent

“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you.

Your first parent was a star.”

—Jeanette Winterson