Stellar Corpse Atlas—Index Sheet
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate I
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate I Tamata
Plate I: Stars + Supernova
Iron is born of ancient stars.
Exploded in supernova,
dust is sent across the universe
to assemble as earth.
Stellar corpses make our blood.
Tintic —iron, comes into being.
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate II
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate II Tamata
Plate II: The Great Oxygenation
Slowly, over time, ferrophagic hunger in vast iron oceans
excreted oxygen.
Stellar bodies become proto-bodies,
become iron bodies—banded in the earth’s crust.
Tintic —color, is transformed.
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate III
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate III Tamata
Plate III: Geology
Sediments dreaming at the bottom of deep seas
are thrust to the sky for erosion
to waste at the surface.
Fissures flow forth and erect.
Mountains are made and then water trickles, seeps, rises.
Mineral beings are raised by volcanoes.
Tintic —mountains, are born.
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate IV
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate IV Tamata
Plate IV: Ochre Bodies
Color is the voice of stellar corpses.
Witness of story from beginning to end.
Ochre bodies are multiple agents,
infinitely shaping worldly dimensions.
Tintic —Ochre, is recognized.
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate V
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate V Tamata
Plate V: Ancestral Territories
Ferrophagic siblings grew arms and legs.
It took billions of years
but they became quite dexterous.
In the modern era new strata are born
of sapient capacities.
Tintic —valley, is in relationship.
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate VI
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate VI Tamata
Plate VI: Resistance
Indigenous stewards resisted colonial invasion,
imperial attempts; to be criminalized and slandered
in so-called historic texts.
Pioneers murdered and plundered,
laid human and non-human to waste.
They lied then; they lie now.
Tintic —warrior, is maligned.
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate VII
Stellar Corpse Atlas—Plate VII Tamata
Plate VII: Extraction
The US Geological Survey accomplishes
its total and complete conversion
of earth beings into cash money
through products like the MRDS.
It carefully monitors
the national stockpile of material wealth.
Tintic —beings, are commodified.