I build furniture, but this project isn’t really about furniture. It’s about lived experience.

For years, woodworking has been how I solve problems, taking raw material and shaping it into something functional, precise, and honest. Wood has rules. Measurements matter. Outcomes are visible. But some problems don’t come with plans, tolerances, or clear costs.

When my daughter was diagnosed with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome, my family entered a system where pricing shifts without explanation, bills arrive detached from outcomes, and families are expected to navigate complexity while already overwhelmed. Numbers appear authoritative, but rarely feel grounded in logic or transparency.

This project grew directly out of that reality.

It is a deliberately finite pricing experiment designed to mirror the logic of modern hospital billing. Only 22 tables will ever exist—an intentional reference to 22q, a region on human chromosome 22 associated with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Each table begins at a price derived from the ICD-10 diagnostic code Q93.81. From there, every subsequent table increases in price by $93.81, regardless of material, labor, or outcome.

This is not metaphor. It is mechanism.

The objects remain physically identical while the cost escalates predictably, reflecting how medical charges often grow independent of what actually changes.

The original table, hosted on TheAbsurdityOfItAll.com, serves as the anchor of this experiment—where pricing itself is the primary material. This site exists as an extension of that work. It allows more people to engage with the ideas behind the project without requiring extraordinary resources, while remaining connected to the lived experience that inspired it.

• The work here is still real.

• The story is still personal.

• And the absurdity is still intentional.

At its core, this project examines how value, pricing, and meaning drift when systems lose transparency. Participation can take many forms, viewing the work, sharing it, questioning it, or choosing to engage more directly. All of those are valid.

This isn’t just about a table. It’s about awareness, accountability, and the human reality behind numbers that are too often treated as abstract.