Amulet explores the precious terrain between ancestral traditions and personal memories. Soft talismans conjure earthly and otherworldly desires that are informed by new materialist theories and pre-Christian cosmologies. Methods reflect spiraling life cycles and future (post)human landscapes. Renata Daina was born in the United States and raised in Australia where she learned traditional Lithuanian textile crafts from her grandmother, and is a fifth generation weaver. She received a BFA with Honors Cum Laude from the University of Southern California, and studied Fashion & Textile Design at the University of Technology, Sydney.