Evans Vestal Ward

How I Took My Body Back In 5 Easy Steps

By Evans Vestal Ward

In 2013, I received notice of a suspected bulk patient medical data breach housed within The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Years of medical information were somewhere outside the protections of HIPPA regulations.

This breach was hastened by the enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 where medical providers received compensation to digitize records resulting in a 92% compliance rate by 2015. And by chance in 2015, another notice from Anthem Health Insurance informed me and 78 million other people of a “sophisticated attack” that obtained customer information in a data breach that went undetected for weeks.

In short, somewhere comprehensive data of my and millions of other people is available for purchase on that dark web. To illustrate the drive for these violations, the value of one persons medical data as of 2020, on average, sells for $250.00 US Dollars, while that same person’s social security number has a revenue point of .33 US Cents.

Although the violation can be looked at as a loss of privacy,  we can shift focus and let go of Victorian based body shame and move past the proverbial scarlet letter often used with medical issues in the public realm. The key takeaway in this world of digital capitalism is digital documentation of our bodies is valuable.

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With 5 easy steps, I chose to embrace my time-tested body and its profitability for the viewer to participate in my digital cornucopia.

Step one:

At the end my 4th decade when ageism began to develop, I was first digitally kidnapped and sold on the digital black market. In response, I chose 40 places on my body having been recorded to have medical intervention.

Step two:

As with any online presence, I chose to use an avatar.  In this case, I hired the model Robert Sherman, whose history as Robert Mapplethorpe’s white hairless model (see Christies 2018 auction of “Ken Moody and Robert Sherman” with a realized auction price of $118,750 GBP) firmly established his body in the art market place as an established and bankable gay vessel.

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Step three:

I photographed the model’s body parts correlating to sites on my body of historical medical intervention referenced in the pirated digital records.

Step four:

I used established marketing processes on the images created of my avatar to create market ready imagery. In this case, I combined different views of the same body part with the use of Photoshop’s High Dynamic Range algorithm to create a hyper-real image.

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Step five:

By interrupting the automation of the algorithm, I introduced abnormalities, randomness, and a fractured focus of the rendered body to visually resemble the way search engines and databases introduce random and erroneous information not pertinent to the intended search focus.

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