Drawing motivation from the misshaped bodies that litter the accounts of present day painting, Braunig adjusts these inheritances to the distresses and dangers of contemporary life. In later works, her figures appear to turn on themselves, testing their very own points of confinement and those of the settings that bind them. While reminiscently dystopic, her works of art additionally unpretentiously enable their defenseless subjects, pushing a humanist craftsmanship for an age in which singular experience appears to be debilitated by powers outside our ability to control.