Akin is a meditation on the ambiguous nature of interspecies difference. Humans and cats are featured side by side.  Dilating pupils, eye movements, and bellies rising and falling with each breath suggest intimate similarities, yet there are undeniable differences. Our pets, particularly mammals, evoke this uncanny borderland between sameness and difference. When we share intimacy with a cat the blurring of the border is perhaps more striking because of their seeming indifference to us.