Zebra and body-painted female capture with Tanzania landscape dropped in via post production. title: Rayures dans la Nature
One capture: Baboon with body-painted like male posing on a pedestal draped in heavy black material
Composite: Raccoon with body-painted like female looking at the viewer.
Baboon with a male body-painted like a baboon in the background with a red bum, humorous.
One capture: Burmese python wrapped around the python body-painted female.
One capture: Burmese python with tongue out wrapped around the like body-painted female.
One capture: Cheetah with body-painted like female with her tongue out depicting cleaning of cheetah.
One capture: Cheetah lying down looking over shoulder at body-painted like female crawling up behind the cheetah.
Monarch butterfly photo composited with body painted pink dotted apollonia human female with hand made wings and structured butterfly hair.
Monarch butterflies composited with body painted pink dotted apollonia human female with hand made wings and structured butterfly hair.
Monarch butterflies photo conceptual image composited with body painted pink dotted Apollonia human female with hand made wings and structured butterfly hair.
Conceptual composite: Raccoon with body painted like a female raccoon.
Conceptual artwork titled TOUCH. Composite: Raccoon with body-painted-like female touching photographed from below to see faces and paw to hand.
Baboon sitting on pedestal looking at a male body-painted baboon swinging from a rope.
One photo capture: Cheetah standing with body-painted like female on hands and knees.
One photo capture: Cheetah is body-painted like a female cheetah in a passive stance.
One full body capture: Burmese python wrapped around the like body-painted female
Burmese python wrapped around a nude body-painted python female.
Burmese python with tongue out wrapped around a body-painted female showing the middle torso.
African elephant with a body-painted female as an African elephant.
African elephant with body-painted female as a African elephant on top of the elephant.
Squirrel monkey on the head of squirrel monkey body-painted female.
SASSY: body-painted female zebra with tongue out with mouthy zebra, two captures
A rare white tiger with a nude body-painted tiger female was photographed separately and composited together.
COEXIST HUMANOID: Raccoon photographed profile with a body-painted female raccoon for the face.
Black panther + body-painted nude female black panther composited in front of big cat.
A rare white tiger jumping over a body-painted nude female was photographed separately and photo composited together.
SIREN: Half owl, half human
Black panther + body-painted like female.

Artist Statement

Wild is an adjective we often use to describe animals, reflecting the distance separating our civilized lifestyles from the outlying natural world. In Lennette Newell’s Coexist series, the gap between humans and wild animals is diminished, along with any hierarchy that homo sapiens technology has imposed. Each subject, whether animal or human, is equal. However, the human subject could even be seen as subservient, trying to mimic the grace and physical beauty of the animal, yet imperfectly. An observation that is emphasized by the animals’ effortless elegance placed in both a man-made studio and an environmental backdrop. Together, without a spatial barrier, an original relationship unfolds between the animal and the human, a peaceful coexistence that is not exploited by the somatic dominance of the animal, which could, in a time period of seconds, curtail the human’s life. Snapshots of these interactions convey joint persistence, though it is safe to say these interactions do not persist in space and time. The series portrays the certainty that a tranquil co-inhabitance can exist and, therefore, the possibility that it could propagate.