The physio who photographed his clients' posture

He had been a physio for fifteen years and had developed, like most of his peers, the habit of seeing what he expected to see. He knew this. He also knew it was costing him: clients plateaued in the second month, then drifted, and he could not always tell whether the issue was in their body, in his attention, or in the gap between them.

He started taking two photographs at the first session of every new client — front, side, hands at their sides — and asking a vision-capable chat tool to describe what it saw, in plain English, with no judgement. He compared the description to his own. Where they differed, he wrote down which one he trusted, and why. After three months he had a quiet record of his own blind spots.

The shape of the work was two photographs at the first session, a written description from a vision tool, his own written description, and a brief note where they disagreed. The tool was never shown to the client. It was a second pair of eyes for him. He kept his clinical assessment as his own. The record of disagreements became, over time, a small private curriculum.

A long-standing client mentioned that his cues had become more specific.