In the middle of Astor Place in New York stands a black steel cube, balanced on one of its corners. Its name is Alamo, a sculpture by Tony Rosenthal from 1967. Most people walk past it without a second thought. The rabbit hole begins with that second thought.
Then you start to see the cube everywhere. The Borg ship in Star Trek is a cube. The glowing data objects in science-fiction films are cubes. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a black, perfectly geometric monolith marks every turning point of human evolution. Each appearance seems to point toward the same object.
Believers in the story argue that repetition is not coincidence. Art, film and public space, they say, share a visual language, and the black cube is its most patient letter. This page does not claim that such a language exists. It explains what the story claims, and where the evidence stops.
On the street
A black cube on a corner, in public, labelled as art, and walked past daily.
On screen
The Borg cube, the monolith and the glowing data cube are the same shape in different costumes.
In the sky
A cube-like pattern is said to sit at the north pole of Saturn, though the shape is actually a hexagon.
In the mind
Once the symbol is seen, the mind starts connecting it to everything else.