What are your numbers?
X = Y
Number of pregnancies = number of children born. Five times pregnant, three children raised — my own formula is 5=3. This is a quiet, honest project about the numbers we rarely say out loud.
Five pregnancies. Three children. One equation.
I was pregnant five times to have our three children. Somewhere along the way I stopped hiding the other two numbers, and started making art out of them instead.
Read my story"5 = 3. That's the point. Losing a child during pregnancy feels like a glitch in logic, in nature, in your body."
Ceramic shards, quietly placed in cities around the world
Each plaque carries someone's formula — X pregnancies, Y children. It is left in a park, on a wall, by a river, with a small sign asking anyone who finds it to share their own numbers.
The ProjectCeramic & porcelain plaques
Street posters
A growing world map
From Paris to Berlin, Yerevan to Rio
More than two dozen cities now hold a piece of this project — some placed by Anna herself, many carried and installed by friends who believe in it too.
Bring 5=3 to your city
Every dot on this map is a plaque a real person placed — many by mail, sent to a friend or a stranger willing to carry it. Request one for your own city as a quiet show of support, add a new point to the map, and help this project reach further than one person ever could alone.
Want to be named for it? Contributors who install a plaque are credited in the journal and on Instagram, if they'd like to be.
London, United Kingdom
"Finally in London" — after a long time hoping to get there.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Between canals and bicycles, your voice matters."
Bremerhaven, Germany
Shown at a real art festival, @artspace_bremerhaven.
Notes from every city, every plaque, every conversation
A running diary of the project — the coincidences, the friends who helped, the mistakes, and the quiet moments that made it worth continuing.
Read the journalLonger stories, city by city
Essays on the formula, the materials, and the friends 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.
HealingFree stickers
A small printable sheet — for yourself, or to leave somewhere as street art. Download, print, and pass it on.
Download the sticker sheet
Your numbers matter too
Write down your X = Y in solidarity with everyone who has carried a loss in silence. Or download the stickers, or ask us to send a plaque to your own city.