5=3 5equals3
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The project

X = Y — a formula for what usually stays unsaid

5=3 began as one woman's private arithmetic and grew into a travelling, wordless conversation between strangers.

What the formula means

X is the number of times you were pregnant...

Why ceramics

Clay was chosen on purpose...

A 5=3 ceramic plaque set into a bold red, yellow and blue street mural
Each plaque is placed by hand, against whatever wall is already there.
How the project has grown

What started as a single hand-cut, glazed ceramic shard...

A 5=3 ceramic plaque against a colourful abstract street-art wall
From one plaque in Paris to more than twenty cities and counting.
Where the project stands today

More than two dozen cities carry a piece of 5=3...

If you'd like to be part of it

Share your own numbers, download the stickers...

From the road

Attaching a ceramic 5=3 plaque to a wall in a graffiti-covered underpass
Placing a 5=3 plaque beside a doorway
A small ceramic 5=3 plaque resting on gravel among ivy
Holding up a 5=3 plaque in front of a cathedral's twin towers
25+

cities carry a plaque

44

stories shared so far

1 in 4

pregnancies end in loss

There are many quiet ways to be part of this

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