EXHIBITIONS
ADVERTISEMENT & NOTICE TO THE PUBLICK
Concerning an Interactive Demonstration of Verse, Sound, & Memory
AB AETERNO™,
A Design House Across Two Centuries,
begs Leave to acquaint the Curious, the Discerning, and the Publick,
That throughout the Month of August, in the Year 2026, There shall be open for Contemplation & Inspection an Extraordinary Multi-Disciplinary Exhibition
FOREVER IS ALSO NOW
Being a Conjoint Endeavour between Two Authors across a Divide of Centuries, and marking the publick debut of Ab Aeterno™ as an Eighteenth- & Twenty-First-Century Design House, wherein the Private Questions of a Lifetime are rendered into Physical Substance, to be encountered through Verse, Sound, Image, Scent, Objects, & Memory.
THE PRINCIPAL PIECES OF THE EXHIBITION COMPRISE:
POETICAL BROADSIDES: Imprinted upon authentic German Etching® rag in the Kingdom of Great Britain, containing verses composed under rapid & singular transmission.
THE HARPSICHORD & SYNTHETIC AIRS: An original Soundscape with musick for Ab Aeterno, wherein Classical Harpsichord Ostinatos encounter Modern Electronic Rhythms.
THE CINEMATICAL APPARATUS: Moving Engravings & Visual Studies serving as an Overture to the forthcoming Screen Work and Television Miniseries, Forever is Also Now.
THE DIGITAL SCRIPT & OLFACTORY COMPANIONS: A scannable Device, commonly called a QR Code, shall be provided within the Main Dining Hall, permitting the Visitor to enter the corresponding Musical Works and procure their accompanying Scented Candles directly from the Press.
“The Publick are respectfully advised that One of the Artists will not be found in bodily Attendance at the Hall, having determined that the Artifacts shall speak on their own Account.”
PLACE OF EXHIBITION:
The Main Dining Hall of Chef Jessie Rockwell, a French Restaurant in Manila, Philippines
With grateful Acknowledgment to Chef Jessie Sincioco and Chef Jessie Rockwell, for their generous Hospitality in receiving the Exhibition.
COMMENCING:
Throughout the Month of August
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand & Twenty-Six
Catalogues, Coordinates, Cryptographical Materials, Musick, & Further Particulars may be consulted at:
WHO WE ARE:
Continue the Conversation
What if the divisions we have been taught to accept were never necessary in the first place?The Enlightenment promised humanity greater freedom through reason and knowledge. Yet its ideals could also be appropriated, its disciplines divided, and its achievements turned into instruments of institutional power.We inherited an educational system that increasingly separates scientific inquiry from artistic expression, reason from emotion, and intellectual achievement from human understanding.These divisions have consequences. They shape what we learn, how we think, how we understand one another, and how easily institutions can define our place in the world.Ab Aeterno examines that inheritance through three interconnected missions.These three books explore what happened, what it has done to us, and what we can do differently.
THE MEN BENEATH THE UNIFORM
Recover the individual.
Look beneath the categories through which society defines men. Examine what happens when duty, productivity, institutional expectations, and social roles obscure the humanity of the individuals who fulfil them.
AB AETERNO
The Unfinished Conversation of the Enlightenment and Sturm und DrangUnderstand what happened.
Examine the unfinished conversation between reason and feeling, how Enlightenment ideals were appropriated, and how the resulting divisions continue to influence education, institutions, technology, and artificial intelligence.
THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THINKING AND FEELING
Change what the next generation inherits.
Give children the intellectual and emotional foundations to question inherited divisions, think independently, recognise their own humanity, and build beyond what previous generations accomplished.
