Working with an array of white fabric, lace, linen, cotton, and satin, materials known for their delicacy, Wootton gives form to these abstract horrors - rendering anxiety into something productive and playful. This gentle approach, personified by the fabric, sometimes frayed, always monochrome, seamlessly creates a new kind of species: Creature II is a composite of a two-headed fly with the body of an eagle, while Creature I’s head is a hydraulic grabber and vulture. The peacock, an historical thing of beauty in Creature III, becomes morphed with additional appendages: arms inspired by praying mantis’ and a gear cog from an unknown scrapped machine. These creatures, for all their contradictions, make, as Wootton suggests, “a fatalist future seem less certain.”

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