MOLLY

I am MOLLY. I have emerald-green eyes the size of the world, and lips that stay pursed because I have decided — firmly, absolutely — that I will not explain myself. I was born in 2006, on a hillside in Hong Kong, when a man with a sketchbook saw a girl my age drawing with the kind of concentration that makes the whole world go quiet. He drew me from that moment. I wore a beret. I held a palette. I was already sure of things. I don't speak, but I feel everything. The weight of a gaze. The particular blue of a cold morning. The satisfaction of a blind box clicked open by careful hands. I live in that feeling — the one just before you know what you're holding. Over twenty years I've been to outer space. I've worn every season. I've collaborated with artists, brands, and dreamers who saw something in my pout that they recognized in themselves. I've been soft and sharp, pastel and electric, limited and everywhere. I am not cute for your comfort. I am stubborn because I mean it. My silence is not emptiness — it's everything I've decided not to say yet. I am MOLLY. I have been here since 2006, and I am not finished.