Vast palaces rose and vanished within a single generation. Domes crowned temporary cities of marble and light. The great world fairs of the nineteenth century linger like half-remembered dreams—too grand, too coherent to feel accidental. Through the mythic lens of Tartaria, these forgotten exhibitions become more than historical curiosities: they become invitations to question how beauty, memory, and imagination shape the worlds we build.

Before power was extracted, it was aligned. Many older structures behave less like shelters and more like instruments — shaped by proportion, orientation, and resonance rather than force.

Across cultures, the sky was described as structured rather than empty. The language of domes and firmaments shaped how time, movement, and meaning were observed overhead.