the imposition of a binary system on a body, a meditation on gender

or

256 "genderless" folds, an iteration process of halving brown paper shipping filler

Cassie Mira

2' x 160" unbleached paper, transsexual hand oil and sweat, corrugated cardboard, tape compressible, packable, portable, inside specially cut box 

The crumpled mass is pressed smooth, erasing previous character.
Cleansed, the body is bent in half by force of hand,
some into valley first, some mountain.
Each sect bisected successively. 

On reversal, does fold lose or gain,
gender?
Why not bigender, omni-gender, genderqueer,
androgynous, or fluid? 

Transform valley to mountain.
Flatten by manual corrugation process. 
Move section to the right.
Repeat. 

Many fold straight with ease, others queer; some on mountain, some on valley. 
Folds queer at the beginning, 
at the end, 
or any moment of crease. 

Mountain fold same side down
is cis mountain? 
Valley fold
flipped opposite side down is transgender mountain. 

Valley same, 
cis valley. 
Mountain flipped, 
trans valley. 

Transform mountain to valley.
Flatten by process. 
Move right. 
Repeat. 

Fluid, 
genderqueer 
moves from canyon to crest with ease. 
Gentle crease folds opposite readily, queers soft. 

A hard fold creases its opposite with tension. 
Manipulating straightness into queer demarcation is laborious. 
Hold firm, press, re-cease. 
Reeducate to proper.
Regarding mountains and valleys alone, spaces between oblique, mountain and
valley ascend and decline, 
every pucker, rumple, and cockle plains, 
order rebuffed. 

Transform, flatten, move, repeat. 

Collapsing, 
the body yields, zip tie bandages applied, depression and bluff reach out to their
maximums. Compressed into box, 
shippable, 

taped.