Essays and stories from the 5=3 project
Longer reads on the formula, the cities, the materials, and the people who carry plaques around the world.
A Week Across Northern Germany
One week, four cities: Berlin, Bremen, Bremerhaven and Hanover, back to back.
Travel
Stickers in Paris
Paris is where 5=3 began. In 2026, Anna went back and left stickers instead of another plaque.
New format
Grieving a Pregnancy Loss: What Actually Helps
Not medical advice — just what women in this community have said, over and over, actually helped them carry a loss.
Healing
From an Instagram Caption to a Street in Twenty Countries
How a single Instagram post in 2024 turned into a real-world street-art project anyone can stumble across.
Behind the scenes
A Plaque as a Birthday Gift: Anna's Second Trip to Tel Aviv
A year after the project's first Tel Aviv plaque, a second one arrived as a birthday gift Anna gave herself.
Milestones
Girls Supporting Girls: The Friends Who Carry Plaques Around the World
5=3 has never been a solo project. Meet the friends who packed a plaque in their suitcase.
Community
Borrowed Glue, Borrowed Sign: A Basel Story
Arriving in Basel without a sign or glue — and how a friend and one open Sunday supermarket fixed both.
Behind the scenes
Five Ways to Get Involved With 5=3
You don't need to travel or make anything to be part of this project. Five quiet, real ways to help.
Get involved
Clay, Porcelain, Paper: The Changing Materials of 5=3
From a hand-cut ceramic shard to cast porcelain and street posters — how the materials evolved.
Process
Sixteen Plaques, One Year: 2025 in Review
A look back at a year of the project — new cities, a commission, a new format, and the friends who helped.
Year in review
Why Pregnancy Loss Is Still Wrapped in Silence
Why so many people only learn how common miscarriage is after it happens to them.
Awareness
What Happened When a Plaque Landed on Someone Else's Art
A plaque in Yerevan accidentally covered another artist's mural — and the research sprint that followed.
Street art ethics
Finally in London
After a long time hoping to get there, a plaque finally went up on a wall of London street art.
Travel
The Project's Furthest Stops: Havana and Rio de Janeiro
How 5=3 plaques ended up beside a wall of Rio street art and on a colonial street in Havana.
Travel
What a Broken Plaque Taught Me About New Year's Eve
A plaque cracked before New Year's Eve 2025 — and said something truer than a perfect one would have.
Reflections
A Street Poster Made Entirely of Pregnancy Tests
The story behind 5=3's boldest material experiment yet, up close.
New format
Fifty Formulas: The Artwork Being Built From Your Numbers
An open call for fifty real X = Y formulas, to be brought together into one large-scale artwork.
New format
Free Stickers, Real Streets: Introducing the 5=3 Sticker Pack
A small printable sheet of stickers, made with an illustrator, so anyone can join in.
New format
The Plaque Someone Else Asked For
The first 5=3 plaque made to someone else's numbers — asked for by a stranger at an exhibition.
Milestones
How to Support a Friend After a Miscarriage
Practical, non-clinical suggestions for what to say — and what not to say.
For loved ones
Cyprus, and the Secret Agents Who Carry a Plaque
How a plaque reached Cyprus without Anna ever booking a flight.
Community
The Symphony of Stones: When a Plaque Became Land Art
A happy accident, a circle of basalt columns near Yerevan, and a plaque that became land art.
Street art
What's Left After the Loss
A plain list of what a miscarriage can leave behind, psychologically and socially.
Healing
From One Plaque in Paris to More Than Twenty Cities
How a single ceramic shard grew, city by city and friend by friend, across four continents.
Growth
One Weekend, Two Cities: Paris and Luxembourg, Again
One year after the first plaque, a new one returns to Paris — and two days later, Luxembourg again.
Travel
1 in 4: Understanding the Real Numbers Behind Pregnancy Loss
What the statistic actually means, and why so few people know it until it happens to them.
Statistics
Madrid and the Shift to Porcelain
After a year of hand-cut ceramic, the plaque in Madrid was the project's first cast in porcelain.
Process
Why Georgia: The Most Personal Plaque in the Project
A 2016 trip, a stopped heartbeat, and why returning to Georgia helped set something right.
Personal history
Returning to Georgia, Choosing Quiet This Time
A second, quieter return to Georgia — this time to Telavi, near Saint George Church.
Travel
What Is a Missed Miscarriage? A Plain-Language Explanation
A clear, non-clinical explanation of a loss that's rarely explained to pregnant people.
Education
One Big Plate, Five Small Plaques: The Rehovot Story
A large ceramic plate cracked in the kiln — and became five separate 5=3 plaques instead.
Process
Where 5=3 Began: The First Plaque, Left Quietly in Paris
The story of the very first 5=3 plaque, left in a Paris street in May 2024.
Origin story
Small Truths From the First Year
Three short, plain Instagram posts from 5=3's first year that turned out to matter more than any plaque.
Reflections
What Does 5=3 Actually Mean? The Formula Behind the Project
Breaking down the equation that gives the project its name and its purpose.
Formula