A friend recently asked me: where is the sublime of failure? and I felt compelled to address the theme of desire in the hands of its mismatched execution. THE NARRATIVE OF INADEQUACY delves into the unpredictability of physical intimacy, an experience that antagonizes the representative broadcasting that constitutes much of our social interactions in the age of virtual existence. Stripped of idealization, sexual inadequacy proves to be an experience that beckons us to wrangle with that part of ourselves which remains immune to cognitive organization. A tableau of semi-anonymous accounts forming a collective register of a moment where closeness and second-hand notions of adequacy clash.