The Injury Project is an attempt to visually document through photographs all “mechanisms” of an injury event. The World Health Organization has registered thousands of codes that refer to the specifics of injuries. For example, try code 884.1 means a person fell from a cliff and 805.2 indicates that foreign matter was left in the body during the removal of a catheter. These repetitive, abstract, non-descriptive codes present a curiously obscure version of a very real, unique, often traumatic experience.

For Reischke, the readers must supply their own interpretation of these highly edited, transplanted codes. Essentially, the codes are obsessed with quantifiable detail, yet they remain fragmentary. They indicate exclusions and abstract divisions, yet they are difference pushed to indifference.

The Injury Project accentuates this vague and outrageously arbitrary principle of word selection inherent within this conventional, formal and scientific document by providing visual cues to the physical meaning of the events.