BROKEN MOLD
This project takes its name from both material and metaphor.
The work is built through mold-making, forms designed to reproduce the same shape again and again. Yet no mold survives repetition untouched. Cracks appear, edges soften, the form begins to fail.
In the same way, we are born into molds that pre-exist us.
Gender is one of the first: a structure that defines how a body should look, move, dress, and desire. These molds promise order, but they assume sameness. For many bodies, they do not fit.
Broken Mold exists in the space where repetition fails.
Where silhouettes inherited from history no longer align with lived experience. Where bodies resist the shapes imposed on them. The work does not attempt to repair the mold, but to expose it, to reveal where it fractures, collapses, or must be abandoned entirely.