Revealing human skin and characteristics beneath costumes provokes empathy, familiarity, and a sense of the uncanny. The characters I and others embody in my work have comedic/tragic longing and a simultaneous fascination with beauty and repulsiveness. By donning new skins I alter conventions of how we perceive the body and its functions. While depicting an animal/woman hybrid who undergoes a transformation, I seek to dispel illusions held about how a body looks and acts.