QR Code as Acknowledgement

(in the Monograph)

A QR code appears as an acknowledgement in this monograph.
It spans media—on and offline—an augmented extension of the book into an evolving digital space: a living, breathing acknowledgement.

Rather than a fixed list of names, it opens toward a field of relations that can expand, shift, and be revised over time. What begins on the printed page continues beyond it—into a dynamic archive of gratitude, collaboration, memory, and presence.

The acknowledgement therefore resists closure.
It remains unfinished, porous, and continually becoming.

Acknowledgement is a conceptual space of becoming. a continuum of gratitude—unfinished, open, always becoming. This gesture is to destabilize traditional authorship by refusing fixity. It performs acknowledgment not as a footnote, but as a central, continuous act. Not a transactional closure, Refusing finality or fixity.. Allowing incompleteness and continual revision. Acknowledgement is like a checklist that defies hierarchy.….

Who gets archived? Who gets named? Who remains unacknowledged. It is a relational field of co-creation and co-dependency. a living archive of relation—unfinished, unstable, and open-ended, and collective. This is not just gratitude—it is a radical gesture of love, resistance, and becoming. Isn’t gratitude often a performance, a mere formal gesture, an obligatory item on a checklist? It feels fleeting, a temporary expression shaped by the fluid nature of time and relationships. Aren’t there always some people or things who remain forgotten, overlooked, or overshadowed? People change, rivers flow, plants grow, roads come to an end—how can we capture this transience and turn it into a definitive statement? When we express thanks, we pour our emotions into the moment, but over time, those once-significant names may no longer hold the same resonance. Acknowledgment, then, is time-bound—dynamic and ever-shifting, reflecting the impermanence of human connections and memories.