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0xac0924b10129b99c2e5c55243f44943a576388a8/3 I’m interested in the different structures that sit inside the word identity. Jack Butcher’s KYC asks the collector to construct and claim a synthetic face. Identity emerges through selection: a generated person is adjusted, chosen, and then tied back to an established public identity through verification on X. In that sense, the work performs its own inverted version of KYC—the face is synthetic, but the act of claiming it still depends on proving who is making the choice. Sean Bonner’s KYP shifts that logic in a way I find especially interesting. Instead of beginning with a generic synthetic bust, he brings an identity he has already chosen to inhabit—his CryptoPunk—into the same visual language. The distinction feels important to me. One work asks: which face will you choose, and claim as yours? The other asks: what happens when a chosen identity is translated again? That overlaps closely with questions I’m exploring in Surfacing, where identity is also passed between systems: networked.art glyphs are translated through SelSurfTen, while I’m separately investigating what happens when culturally established identities like CryptoPunks are subjected to the same process. I collected KYP because it sits directly inside that territory: identity not as a fixed image, but as something selected, performed, inherited, verified, and repeatedly translated. I’m grateful Sean made this intervention. It gives me another way to think about questions I keep returning to in my own work. 🌴yson.eth
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0xe303d461dc0c642cb7b67a7e2ed2c30aa906423b/2 A portrait of participation Stephen’s presence in Surfacing has shaped how I think about what participation can become. Identity 9: Stephen’s glyph, relaxed. is my response to that. Not a reward. Not a record of status. A recognition of consequence. 🌴yson.eth
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0xb12176af92d6dbf4c88dd9d20bd11b56c89bac7f/1 **The network produced another system** Stephen entered my network by collecting Identity (0): My glyph, relaxed. This is the first work in Surfacing: a network of networked artworks built upon networked.art that uses identity, participation, and provenance as conditions for continued form. Now Stephen has built Forum on top of networked.art: another system through which people can enter artworks, this time by writing. That recursion feels important to me. The network inspired an artwork.
 The artwork brought a collector into my network.
 That collector, independently, built another protocol on top of the same network.
 The protocol opens a new form of participation around artworks. As an artist, I’m grateful for Stephen’s presence in my network, and for this new contribution to the wider network. The network is not just expanding. It is beginning to produce new ways of relating. The network works. 🌴yson.eth