![]() ![]() His Photoshop artwork bursts with color and ingenuity, however.Ī good-hearted, if somewhat confusing, meditation. Atkinson’s message on being true to yourself is valuable, but his puzzle-piece metaphor has its limitations when applied to individuality. They do, in a genre-mashing picture that’s exciting, wild, and out of this world. He looks around and sees other pieces that, like him, have tried glue and tape and other bits to fit in. Still, Oliver’s glad to feel like himself again. “What fun is it to fit in?” When he takes off his disguise, he’s immediately rejected and alone again. Everything is perfect, but it doesn’t feel that way to Oliver. He changes himself, with tape and staples and a purple crayon, till he’s unrecognizable. ![]() Desperate, Oliver decides to go to extremes. He tries different appendages to change his nature, all to no avail. This works, until his shape gets him ejected. Oliver decides that being himself is getting him nowhere he colors himself red to fit in. But where? On his first puzzle he tries, he’s the wrong color on the second, the wrong shape. “Do you ever wonder where you fit?” Puzzle piece Oliver, with a large round head that’s half blue and half orange, wants to be part of something exciting, wild, out of this world. ![]()
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