This NFT series is a meditation on wayfinding and self-discovery, inspired by an ongoing personal quest for understanding myself and my life. The artwork draws its title from the Greek moniker for a constellation which has been used by many cultures for wayfinding over the course of human history, the Pleiades or 'Seven Sisters'.
Wayfinding is as much about understanding who is looking for direction as it is figuring out in which direction to go. This rhymes with the mathematical concept of domain and range: if we have some function that does some thing, the domain of that function consists of all the inputs, and the range all the outputs. Even if the function itself is well-defined, the output may not make sense unless you understand something about the input. So, in a way, you can't understand the output without understanding the input.
Back to wayfinding: if where you are is gained in the range, and how you get there is in the function, who you are is the domain and therefore of the utmost importance. Pleiades arose from this insight: that the texture of each piece arises directly from nothing more than twisting, folding, warping and squashing the 'observer' of the image. In other words, the domain of the function is the sole determinant of just how the output looks--and self-awareness is understanding the domain of your identity.
Mathematics once again provides a helpful framework: in linear algebra, a collection of vectors is described by its 'basis', or a subset of such vectors that can be combined in different ways to produce any vector in the collection. So, self-awareness is about understanding what the basis vectors of your identity are.
Pleiades integrates this aspect structurally: Seven 'basis editors' are selected and establish a vector parameter space, from which the edition is sampled (hence the term 'basis editions'). Thus, every edition is a combination of some assortment of the basis editions, fleshing out the body of work.