Mutant Consequences Series Explained

I guess I should really introduce the Mutant Consequence Series to you all. As you may have noticed there are some photos of the other paintings in the series in an earlier post. The series was a set of small oil paintings which looked at what might come from experimenting with human genes in a laboratory. Would such experimentation lead to a collection of mutations, mishaps and the creation of new humanoid organisms? The subjects in the paintings are a messy byproduct of an experimentation gone wrong. The works are designed to look like a series of medical illustrations. The flat grey backgrounds and the symmetrical compositions have been employed to create a sense that this is a medical illustration rather than a still life or a 'dead life' if you like hehehehe. I wanted the works to lack any emotion and to be simply descriptive.

Mutant Consequences Series 2001, oil on canvas