_ This piece is specifically drawn from my experiences of oscillating alienation and acceptance while living abroad. Within my personal journey I reflected on the broader implications for the human quest for finding/defining/defending one's “self.”

(As emotional being) we need social interaction, interdependence, and symbiosis.

(As cerebral being) we are relentlessly seeking individual distinction. Although thecontinuum of “belonging” interacts in a dynamic matrix of components, not in static categories nor in a teleological trajectory, “Fit” symbolically depicts the tension of action vs. reaction, conformity vs. rebellion, organization vs. chaos.

Projected onto a low horizontal surface. The action was limited to the table top that viewers could approach from any direction in a dark room. Glowing rectangles are placed by an anonymous hand in an ordered, evenly spaced sequence. Rows and columns form gradually, filling out a grid. The rectangles’ egalitarian treatment and attempt at uniformity is suddenly challenged when some begin to agitate. Pivoting and shifting along the x and y axes, they slowly cluster near the center. Their congregation involves continued sifting and readjustment, layers of rectangles slide over one another to find a better position, a better fit.