Like items from a sixteenth century curiosity cabinet, my installations aim to provide evidence of another reality. I hope to create a reconnection with what is wild within the natural world while reigniting with is wild within us. At a time when the wilderness is becoming known and losing it's awe and mystery, we suffer from this lack of disconnection. The installation is configured of separate but related objects. Each sculpture is has human and animal aspects and is intended be be charged mystery. Many animal forms made from found handmade textiles such as quilts, tatting and embroidery that have their own history. I give them a second life in sculptures I call "containers for spirit". The forms that are elaborately adorned can be festive husks that the life form has vacated or they can be pods ready to be filled with unfamiliar and elusive intensities: an animal energy that suffuses what is human, and a humanity that resides in objects and beasts.