ZT Tosha

Title: Disalignment Study (Head No. 1)

Material: pigmented cast resin

Dimensions:
Approx. 45–60 cm height
Approx. 25–35 cm width
Approx. 25–30 cm depth

Year: 2025

ZT Tosha, Disalignment Study (Head No. 1), pigmented cast resin sculpture, 2025.
In Disalignment Study (Head No. 1), ZT Tosha advances his inquiry into the instability of identity through a formally restrained yet conceptually charged portrait. The sculpture depicts a frontal face—stylized, serene, and bearing traditionally feminine markers—followed by a sequence of offset profiles that progressively blur into ambiguity. These trailing visages are neither strictly masculine nor feminine; instead, they register as iterative deviations, like echoes slipping out of sync with the original note.

Cast in a smooth, matte pigmented resin, the work’s material stillness contrasts with its psychological motion. The head seems to drift through states of becoming, the profiles splitting and recombining like frames from a slowed-down film of selfhood in transition. Rather than presenting identity as a fixed category, Tosha renders it as an ongoing negotiation—an oscillation between external legibility and internal truth.

The piece’s intimate scale invites close viewing, collapsing the distance between the viewer and the shifting subject. The result is a sculptural portrait that refuses to settle. Tosha gestures toward the lived complexities of gender disalignment: the friction between social classification and the self that exceeds such categorization. Here, portraiture becomes a site of tension, not resolution.

With Disalignment Study (Head No. 1), Tosha positions his work within contemporary conversations about nonbinary subjectivity and the inadequacy of traditional representational frameworks. The sculpture neither declares nor resolves; instead, it opens a space where identity can remain fluid, layered, and in motion.