# No. 4 – QR Code

A working QR code, curved and made tangible — a bridge between digital symbolism and handcrafted paper art.

- **Completed:** June 1, 2023
- **Size:** 71 × 71 × 12 cm
- **Edition:** Custom artwork, handcrafted
- **Material:** Paper 120 g/m², extra smooth
- **Substrate:** BRAMANTE Blackboard, 1820 g/m², 71 × 71 × 0.25 cm
- **Frame:** white lacquered wood
- **Parts:** 300–430 prisms in 133 variants

The QR code as a symbol of the digital age forms the basis of this work and involuntarily prompts the viewer to pull out their smartphone and scan the code.

By using three-dimensional paper prisms of varying heights, a spherical surface is imitated without compromising the code’s functionality.

The careful arrangement of the prisms creates an optical illusion that transforms the two-dimensional code into a tactile experience while simultaneously bridging digital symbolism and handcrafted paper art.

The work plays with our perception of technology and art by transforming an everyday digital function into a physical object.

## Images

![A QR code built from white paper prisms on a black ground, seen head-on and fully readable](https://larigami.de/_astro/1.BcdTetCh_BV8GM.webp)

![Extreme side view on the wooden floor, the field of prisms doming up towards the centre](https://larigami.de/_astro/2.DdYj8j1P_Z112qJJ.webp)

![Close-up of the pattern, white blocks standing as cuboids above the black gaps](https://larigami.de/_astro/3.C69-TK97_asBHu.webp)

![Angled view into a finder square, the prism walls forming nested frames](https://larigami.de/_astro/4.C_sVKngK_159pnw.webp)

![The framed work hanging above a sideboard next to a concrete pendant lamp](https://larigami.de/_astro/6.ZuU9S8Ho_ZG46J7.webp)

![Detail from close range, the upper edges of the prisms curving away into blur](https://larigami.de/_astro/5.D0K88C4T_Zala4e.webp)

## Videos

- [The work held up while a smartphone in the foreground scans the code](https://cdn.larigami.de/videos/artworks/4/a.mp4)
- [The artist cutting a numbered prism part out of the printed sheet](https://cdn.larigami.de/videos/artworks/4/b.mp4)
- [The artist gluing a single prism, the printed plan of the code pinned up above it](https://cdn.larigami.de/videos/artworks/4/c.mp4)

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