Edition 000: Founder

Afraid of the Dark?
Cold Hands seek forbidden Light
We have found the Fire.

The Edition series focuses on telling the story of humanity’s beginnings through open-ended haikus and imagery. The first, Edition 000: Founder, tells the story of the initial revelation of humanity that they could control fire and bring light to what was previously in shadow.

This of course could also be interpreted in other ways: The first bite of the Fruit of Knowledge, Prometheus’s stolen fire, the aquatic creature’s first steps on land. The main premise: humanity, or our ancestors, sought after knowledge, sight, power, initially not even for malicious reasons, but to escape the cold. To sate hunger. To learn. To survive.

Future editions will explore how this ‘Finding of Fire’ will inevitably cast shadows and burn, but initially, it warms and brings light to the dark.

Interpret the haiku as you wish, and I hope you like the shirts.
-Pierce