#unconforming

Orientation Variance/Variancy/Nonconforming: not completely/integrally conforming to the societal and cultural ideals or roles of orientation; not being accepted as a member of conformant society due to one’s identity (sexuality/relationship) differing from the one assigned to and expected of them; an umbrella term for orientation identities and expressions that varies/differs the norm.

It’s meant to replace initials like MO and conlangs like unstraight/strain’t & heterodissident. Not to be confused with varioriented. Other labels: variaffectional, variattractional, orientationvariant/orientationvariance, orientationvariancy, orientation inconformist/nonconformist/unconformist, orientation inconformancy/inconformity/nonconformity/nonconformancy, orientation nonconformance/inconformance/unconformance/unconformancy.

i’m not sure if i make sense to you

cause i can’t sort myself into shapes

and form a line like you

its not like my negative goes to the left

and my happiness on the right

it’s more like a little corner with everything

cause i don’t like shapes like squares or triangles,

forms that inhibit with sharp borders and corners

telling me the angle to conform by

and i always clench my jaw when you ask

why my shape does not match yours

why i will not bend to your corner

when what i’d like to say is

“i have my own corner, and i’m happy

i have my own shape, and i’m happy

This is for the molds that we can’t find. I might have drawn it alittle big as i thought the mold would be bigger. However i was adviced by the technician to draw a smaller mold in order for the structure to be stable. As the structure that we wanted was an irregular structure. After drawing and cutting out the structure, i taped it one round with masking tape, to prevent the mixture from sipping through.

This is a black mounting board, some of the black have gotten into the structure itself, which i find it beautiful. As to how accidental beauty are created with no initial intentions. I wouldnt call this a mistake as there are beauty in imperfections, this imperfections in turn changes the work to be more interesting and raw.

Afterwards, i added a little water. Softly rubbing only some parts of the structure, to create a gradual transition of light to dark. Mimicking the transition of ocean waves.