Experimenting with nature can mean a lot of things, but French artist Frédéric Fontenoy took it somewhere we’d never think to venture, and it’s actually really cool.

If you can’t quite tell what you’re looking at, the Alkama series was created by mixing blood and milk (yes, you read that right). Once you get past the initial gag factor and swear to never drink strawberry milk again, the results are actually more beautiful than gross.