Ana Jofre and Takis Zourntos met in 2013 at OCAD University while completing their respective MFAs. Both were returning to graduate school after having had careers as scientists, and both had left faculty positions in the sciences to pursue their interests in art. They inevitably became friends, with shared interests in humanism and robotics. In friendship, they found more uncanny similarities in their life trajectories. Both are only children of first generation immigrants, and both experienced uniquely solitary childhoods: separated from all extended family, no brothers or sisters, and ostracized for being different. Both had formative years marked by solitude but also by a distance from any sense of cultural identity: both had parents that each came from different countries, so they never experienced ‘home’ culture, yet also never quite fit into the culture in which they grew up. Given these similar life experiences and trajectories, they decided that they should collaborate as cultural producers to combine and share their unique perspectives as scientists and artists, as immigrant children, and as cultural orphans.