What Do You See?
What Do You See is a QR code and a question. Printed on a wall, on a sticker, beside a work, alone in a corridor. Whoever scans it lands on a black page with one text field, types what they see, and sends. The response enters a corpus that grows in silence.
The question began in the gallery, where I have always answered the what is this? of visitors with another question: what do you see? Almost no one identifies the image, and when I name it, distinct postures emerge — relief, refusal, revision, insistence. Here the question is the same, asked without an object. The visitor decides what to look at, then names it. The choice of where to look comes before everything else.
Each printed QR carries an activation-instance tag that identifies the context where it appears: a gallery, a wall, an event, a city. Responses are stored with their tag and a timestamp, with no other data. The corpus grows as a layered archive, one stratum for each instance, and the differences between strata are themselves part of what the device collects.
What Do You See sits at a level prior to the framework. The Compass describes the structures that arise once selection has happened. This device asks how the selection happens. The corpus accumulates; the form of the work that may emerge from it belongs to a future decision.
