Toys'r'animals In The Archaeology of Knowledge Foucault writes that one can individualize a discursive formation if one can identify a ‘system of formation’ of the different strategies deployed within it (1972:36). This identification involves a process of delimitation, re-grouping, separation, linking up and deriving analogies from the system’s component elements. My series of paintings, Toys R Animals: animals R toys, explores two different discursive formations that can be labelled as taxonomies. The first is the classification of toys designed specifically for pet animals, and the second is the classificatory system which identifies the species of animal from which the toys derive. The first set of paintings are of identical size, thus denoting their standardized status as toys. Small in size, these toys are manufactured for pets who identify the toys as prey to be tossed about and fetched. They are manufactured from plush fabric and also have connotations of safety and comfort which brings them into the human domain.