My current work visually mutates living forms. I use over-painted photographic images to explore experiences that come from instinct, intuition and the unconscious. For this series of paintings and photographs, I wanted to create a new breed of animal that could exist only through painting. I wanted to take an image that was real and mold it into something with a new and different identity. The animals range in scale from larger than human to minuscule. I delicately remove limbs, heads and signifying aspects of the original forms and replace them with the fragmented space of painting, while preserving the photographic qualities of the representation of the remnants. The photographs exist as altered documents of mythic, symbolic hallucinations of the imagination. The paintings' overlapping shapes imply a naturalistic perspective, but remain spatially contradictory. This opens different modes of working and seeing, leading towards one common goal; a distinctive, disorienting experience that when pieced together can create an almost cinematic narrative between painting, photography and abstraction.