"We forget how closely our lives, physically and spiritually, are linked with animals. From our myths to the milk we drink, we are so dependent on them. Some relationships are clearer: the bees pollinating our crops. Looking into the science of it, there is so much we don't know, but we use. We could never make milk or honey in a lab, we need organic machinery to make such complex things.

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A man milks the venom out of a rattlesnake by forcing its fangs over the rim of a beaker. The poison drips down the inside of the glass. We are told this is make anti-venom. What we're usually not told is that the poison is then diluted and injected into horses. The doses are increased slowly over time as the horses' natural antivenom becomes more concentrated. The blood is drawn, the antidote is separated from it for us to use. That is where the painting Communion comes from."