Personal Statement: Finding the delineation between nature and culture intriguing, Schafer draws upon her professional experience in scientific illustration to create biologically plausible centaurs and ape-like warrioresses --- conflating mythology and the natural sciences to create a perverse and compelling fantasy space. Her characters emerge from an amalgam of classical and personal mythos, half-truths and re-combinations. The many species in this imagined world engage in competition for human status: one having a more human face, the next bipedal, but animal-like, a third decorating herself with feathers and gold.