Abacus consists of a second hand abacus and twenty seven beaded tapestries totaling 70,000 Czech glass beads. The weaving required an estimated 500 hours, a durational performance that treats time as currency. This repetitive labor mirrors how we process trauma and memory. The glass beads both beautify and immobilize the counting frame, crystallizing it into dysfunction. Installed as foam sleeve packaging, these glass tapestries cover and protect the rods while remaining more fragile than the object itself. The beaded sleeves read as uncountable tears, could be of sadness or joy; or as parasitic, intestine like forms; structural threads are left uncut to emphasize decomposition and danger. The abacus accommodates the individual’s experience, equally sad and joyful, repulsive and beautiful, intimidating and familiar.