Figures Collection 

The Body as Ledger 

A photographic accounting of neurological episodes that cannot be written off (2012–present). 

Figures Collection: The Body as Ledger is an archival practice that registers neurological events through a grammar of transaction rather than testimony. Where expressive disclosure would risk social erasure—reducing the subject to spectacle or pathology—this series adopts the forensic logic of bookkeeping. The body, here, is neither a site of display nor a vessel of narrative, but an instrument of record.

Each photograph captures a single, non-public episode as a figure of constrained physical notation. The form is shaped not by emotion but by the bureaucratic architecture that encloses lived experience: redacted medical reports, contradictory witness statements, formally denied insurance claims. These documents constitute the clinical and administrative perimeter around an event—acknowledging its occurrence while systematically refusing its social or material validation.

The work exists in the liminal space between registration and recognition. It leverages the aesthetics of evidentiary filing, forensic taxonomy, and archival classification to trace how pain is absorbed into systems of documentation, processed into data, and filed as an unsettled account. The transaction is logged but never completed; the entry is made but never closed. The body, in this calculus, is a ledger where pain is accounted for—yet never written off.

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