These paintings have served as field journal entries in examining the relationship between trauma and perception. This art practice aims to explore the results of the body’s exposure to violence. It also questions where the body begins and ends, and how the mind ties itself to it. Through utilizing elements of surrealism, automatism, and abstraction in forming psychological "landscapes", the goal of the paintings is to describe the internal processing of violent encounters, having the figure(s) be the grounding point in the physical realm. By extension, Kylie is studying psychological phenomenas that lead to the disruption and distortion of reality and perception of the self. She is concerned with the boundaries, if any, between internal and external worlds. Sensory warping is implicated. Memory is blurred. As a result, the work contains themes of isolation, dissociation, paranoia, and disorder.