White paint marker on glass with black backing and shadowbox frame; hand-drawn functional QR code; 30.5 × 45.7 cm; unique work.
A QR code, normally generated in an instant, was redrawn mark by mark by hand. It is not a picture of machine logic. It is functional machine logic executed by a human hand. The black glass behaves as a mirror: when viewers stand before the work, they see themselves reflected inside the machine-readable field. The "I" at its centre becomes both the encoded subject and the person looking.
Scanning the code opens a digital protocol that asks what an algorithm can measure and what remains unrecorded. The work places one of the oldest forms of mark-making, the human hand, inside the visual language of machines. It asks whether the self persists when identity is translated into a field designed to be read by a device.
Artist statement: I wanted to look inside the black box and found myself reflected back through it. The machine can read the code, but it cannot occupy the encounter. The viewer completes the work by appearing inside it.
Exhibited in the juried group exhibition In A Word at Kariton Art Gallery, Abbotsford, British Columbia, 2026.
