TombSeries

THE TOMB SERIES

INDEX MARKERS

is a series of 177 individual works, referred to as Tombs, published in a 240 page hardcover book format – Tomb Index – and deployed on chain as individual 1/1 artworks, plus a smaller series of screenprint editions. Each Tomb consists of a depiction of an optical data disc on a black void, drawn by David Rudnick using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS3, using the trackpad on a 2012 Macbook Pro. No 3D or additional rendering software is used in their composition.

The 177 Tombs are divided into eight “Houses”, with each House constituting a discrete body of work launching with different contracts, behaviours, interactions, mechanics, platform launch partners, even on different blockchains and with unique physical components. Tombs in one House can affect the behaviours of Tombs in others, some Tombs will be extremely straightforward to access and view, others may require unlocking or discovery, or the fulfilment of certain conditions in order to access them.

Each of the 3000 copies of the Index is randomly assigned its own Index Marker – a numbered on-chain NFT also numbering 3000.

The Marker is free to claim, each copy of the Index unlocks one Marker only.

The first 177 of the 3000 Markers contain a unique visual element drawn from the Tomb in the Series that corresponds to the Marker number.

In addition, the Index Marker contract contains Tomb XXI – EQUINOX, of House RONIN, which is deployed by the contract as Token #0. This contract was deployed by the RONIN collaborator Luke Miles, and represents a first step in the next chapter of the Tomb Series where actions of the community and the collaborators, and not just those of the original artist, will continue to build and determine the direction of its wider world.