The metal wall I built to keep people from climbing the fence

Sanded and painted black

I’d done a collage here last year

Pristine work surface

Off white base coat

Only in SF are Wet Paint signs so multilingual

My technique for making chalk lines using magnets from a microwave

The QR (Quick Response) code, created from a QR generator site

The only single sheet of graph paper I could find is brown with ¼” squares

The transcribed code held up by my muse

I learned that the background doesn’t need to be white so I created this

I wanted something that was easily identifiable behind the code

The artist after adding the grid

The code against the background

Starting the grid

Excited by the work

I was eager to begin but it rained on two consecutive days off

Finally able to mark the squares to be painted black

Despite my double and triple checks I still made numerous mistakes in my marking

After two days, about 4 hours of paintying

3 days, about 7 hours

A last 2-3 hours. I was very nervous, I had no way of knowing whether it would scan before I finished

And if it didn’t I would have no way of figuring what was wrong.

Only when I was sure it would scan did I add this. I’ll replace it with an artist’s statement that explains how to get and use a QR scanner on a phone.
I will also be washing off or painting over the blue chalk lines and covering the surface with a few coats of urethane.

Only when I was sure it would scan did I add this. I’ll replace it with an artist’s statement that explains how to get and use a QR scanner on a phone.
I will also be washing off or painting over the blue chalk lines and covering the surface with a few coats of urethane.