What is value, and what happened to our ability to feel it? A practice in three works, 2019–2026 ↓
ArtistMyles DaughtryBornWashington, DCLivesPhoenix, AZPracticeArt, technology & human experienceMediaPhysical Digital On-chainFeelingReprogramMeaningMetadate/aPrivacyARTIFACTSFree expressionSomewhere Thinking Applied Design
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Statement
The feedback loop
The loop
We live inside a feedback loop. Technology and social media promised information and access, and they delivered so completely that feeling became the scarce thing.
The cost
We can reach anyone and value no one. We can see everything and be moved by almost nothing.
The question
My work starts there, with one question running under all of it: what is value, and what happened to our ability to feel it?
The material
I treat value as both subject and material. Each project takes a different face of it.
The method
I build these as systems, not pictures, because the system is where value is actually decided. The blockchain is not my gallery, it is my material: permanence, proof, and custody are things I can shape with my hands.
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The value question
3 works
No.
Work
What it weighs
Cost
W-01
Reprogram
The value of an inner life vs. the surface
Feeling
W-02
Metadate/a
The value of our data and memory to us, not the platforms
Meaning
W-03
ARTIFACTS
The value of privacy vs. legibility: the sealed vs. the seen
Privacy
Through-line
All three works are about what a hyper-legible, hyper-accessible world costs us: feeling, meaning, privacy.
[Reprogram W-01 Feeling]
Physical installation 2019
Work
Reprogram
Type
Physical installation
Year
2019
Platform
Web2
Color
Pantone 109 C, single color only
Medium
Repurposed found materials, monochrome
Materials
Pre-existing, repurposed
Form in the room
Physical installation
Weighs
An inner life vs. the surface
Cost
Feeling
Reprogram asks what an inner life is worth against a world that rewards the surface. It works in a single color, Pantone 109 C, built only from pre-existing, repurposed materials, putting the worth of a human mood and the worth of what we discard in the same frame.
Overview
Reprogram is built on the premise of healing internally rather than seeking the artificialities of society. Working in the monochromatic palette of Pantone 109 C, the collection conveys the intimate relationship between the tones, shades, and tints of a single color. Yellow is universally regarded as cheerful, influencing moods of happiness, creativity, and optimism. The goal of the experience is to offset life's bullshit with the drop of one color.
Digital concept2019
The work highlights the impact colors have on our mental health and mood. Music has long been a vessel for communicating the realities of lower classes, and that cultural reference point drives the series. The aim is to spark conscious emotion: great art extends beyond the limitations of the retina. It engages the brain, and thus the imagination.
Physical concept2019–2020
The physical extension is produced entirely from pre-manufactured acrylic surfaces and hardware, repurposing materials already moving through the supply chain instead of adding to landfills. Daughtry calls this the re-industrialization of design: re-establishing design industries around craftsmanship and sustainability rather than consumerism.
Digital art gallery2021
An immersive 3D gallery extends the series from 2D into space, seeking to organically influence genuine responses that empower well-being and mental health. Built in collaboration with Dylan Sneed (obsdn.art), a film production and visual effects studio telling stories through technology.
W-01.1Archive card
W-01.2View
W-01.3View
Plates W-01.1–3Hover for true color
[Metadate/a W-02 Meaning]
On-chain social experiment 2024
Work
Metadate/a
Type
On-chain social experiment
Year
2024
Platform
Web3
Records
The dates and moments that matter
Medium
On-chain record, participatory
Duration
Permanent
Form in the room
Screens, prints, and a live terminal
Weighs
Our data to us, not the platforms
Cost
Meaning
Metadate/a asks what our data is worth to us, not to the platforms that harvest it. It records the dates and moments that actually matter and makes that record permanent, turning the raw material of surveillance back into something personal.
Public proof on the wall; the work opens only for its owner
The work
sealed sealed sealed
The proof
Public, permanent
Weighs
The sealed vs. the seen
Cost
Privacy
ARTIFACTS asks what privacy is worth in a world built to be read. On a chain where everything is public and permanent, it keeps each piece sealed and encrypted, visible to its owner alone, while only the proof stays public. The record is legible to everyone; the work is legible to no one but you.
Physical, digital and on-chain work, the thesis and everything around it.
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04
Thinking out loud
Free expression
Beside the work
Somewhere Thinking and Applied Design sit beside this work as free expression, the same hand working without a fixed medium. The thesis holds the center. The rest is me thinking out loud.
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Record
Profile, releases, availability
Profile
BornWashington, DC
LivesPhoenix, AZ
PracticeArt, technology & human experience
MediaPhysical, digital, on-chain
Releases
2019Reprogram, digital gallery (3D), with obsdn.art
