Figures Collection
The Body as Ledger
Sculptural documentation of neurological episodes (2012–present).
Each figurine’s contortion corresponds to:
• Medical reports (redacted)
• Witness statements (conflicting)
• Insurance claim denials
Transaction Type: People
My photographic series, Figures Collection: Different Versions, interrogates the concealed realities of individuals navigating neurological disorders, forced to mask their conditions and endure solitary rehabilitation. These diminutive, anonymous figures evoke clinical statuettes from a physician’s cabinet, their fragile forms materializing the societal erasure of invisible suffering. The poses, at once uncanny and unnervingly natural, mirror my own lived experience of secrecy and survival.
During my university years, a violent muscle spasm attack during class precipitated my abrupt ostracization. Friends, peers, and intimates retreated; within weeks, I was expelled. Thereafter, I learned to vanish, disappearing for months into cyclical rehabilitation, a ritual of isolation that now underpins my artistic practice.
Initiated in 2012, each work in the Figures Collection corresponds to the monthly tally of my attacks. The contorted, solitary bodies articulate the paradox of concealment: the physical poetry of hands twisting into involuntary shapes, a cipher shared by my models (mannequins or individuals with neurological/mental health conditions). These collaborators are selected for their “recognizable ability"—a corporeal lexicon of hidden struggle.
The series operates as both personal archive and collective testimony, rendering visible the bodies and minds marginalized by societal aversion to vulnerability. It is a demand to witness the unwitnessed: the faceless, yet undeniably human.
