The Aesthetics
of Asymmetry
The artefact series · 0 of 6 live

One ledger
every month.

Each artefact is a single ratio, drawn to scale, pegged to a specific piece of recent news. A2 poster, 16-page document, LinkedIn launch post, 100 printed copies hand-mailed to the people who should see it first. Every number sourced. Every source public.

  1. 001
    April 2026
    SCHEDULED

    Murri Watch — withdrawn for corrections

    News peg · Withdrawn 25 September 2026 while its figures are corrected and Murri Watch is asked whether it wants to be featured.

    Companion: Episode 01 · The Keyhole

  2. 002
    May 2026
    SCHEDULED

    The 140 — one named dual donor-contractor, traced

    News peg · Federal budget week or AEC disclosure update.

    Companion: Episode 02 · Resolution

  3. 003
    June 2026
    SCHEDULED

    The 873 — postcode atlas of funding deserts

    News peg · Ships alongside Episode 03. National scope.

    Companion: Episode 03 · The Missing Folder

  4. 004
    July 2026
    SCHEDULED

    Promise and Purchase Order — one minister's Hansard trail

    News peg · Ideally returns to the minister named in Artefact 001. Closes the loop.

    Companion: Episode 04 · The Promise and the Purchase Order

  5. 005
    August 2026
    SCHEDULED

    The 22 — every public fact about the government's named orgs

    News peg · Retroactive accounting of the minister's unanswered April statement.

    Companion: Episode 05 · The Alibi

  6. 006
    September 2026
    SCHEDULED

    The first story — a young person after 30 June

    News peg · Empathy Ledger storyteller, consent-gated, portrait-led.

    Companion: Episode 06 · CARE

What each artefact contains

A2 poster

Two rectangles drawn to scale against each other. One red stamp. Everything from public records. Designed to be plotter-drawn or Riso-printed in two colours.

16-page document

Opener in Ben's voice. The arithmetic. The overrepresentation panel. The funding timeline. The government's stated position. The questions no one has answered. Every number sourced.

LinkedIn post

Written in human voice. No em-dashes for drama, no rules of three, no rhetorical series. One trap-the-minister paragraph. One plain imperative close. Posted Tuesday 7:30am AEST.

See also
The full six-month campaign →
All artefacts released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Files in artefacts/ on GitHub. Print them. Post them. Send them.