The Treachery of Tickers speculates that: i) symbols are dreamt, created, appropriated, reappropriated, crucified, and reborn. ii) Value is manipulated, corrupted and coveted. Value and the systems, institutions and technologies that distribute value are the subject matter of The Treachery of Tickers. 12 symbols frequently employed in her practice are presented at the Nasdaq on April 2 2025. Each symbol is formalized as dynamic NFTs on Base. Each artwork autonomously reacts to the real-time price fluctuations of the token it reflects:White → The symbol has mooned (10x).Black → The symbol has -10x’d into oblivion.Green & Red → The symbol is in purgatory, fluctuating somewhere in between.This is not a $KISSThis is not a $ROSEThis is not an $EGGThis is not $MILKThis is not $BUTTERThis is not a $COWThese are not $FEETThese are not $BOOBS This is not $DICKBUTT This is not $VVV This is not $VEIL This is not $ANON12 artworks. 1 edition each, 0.0 ETH reserve, 24 hour auction on April 3 2024, 12pm. Artist Statement: “The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” - Guy DebordThe price of eggs is always more valuable than the chicken's life: we cry over spilt milk, never the cow’s rape. Despite our access to new progressive technologies, value is repetitively distributed. [That which can be extracted is always more valuable than that which provides]. The penis’ value is impossible to usurp, even in memecoins. $DICKBUTT has a market cap of $4M, and $BOOBS has a market cap of $300K. Of course, both “tokens” lack “real life” utility, they’re merely symbolic. Some symbols have always been more valuable than others. Aanon, veils, and VVV vvv (privacy, permission, censorship): tools (ideas) too easily corrupted. The same mechanisms that protect self-sovereignty can just as easily violate us. At their worst, these tools are used to obscure power, evade accountability, or reinforce control. In their purest expression, these tools are forgettable. The pursuit of privacy, then, is not inherently radical or oppressive. It simply is a constant conflict, where technology can domesticate as much as it can liberate. This is the Treachery of Tickers.