"I just found myself in your street," the wolf said, "and thought I should look for you, so here I am." 

A long romance ensued between Collins and this wolfman, beginning in 1998 and continuing until the present.

Collins searched online for a sheepfarmer in Australia. As part of the project, she was searching for a cultural connection between Australia and Britain. Parts of her diary and a fantasy are still posted online, but the work was never completely finished because instead of finding a sheepfarmer in Australia, someone else turned up at her doorstep.

"I think while delighted at the change in my personal circumstances, there was a part of me that was disappointed that...I wasn't then in a position to go all the way to that absolute extreme of offering myself as an 'emailorder bride.' I would have like to have pursued that much, much further."

Perhaps the artwork that Collins is most known for is titled In Conversation. When In Conversation is live, the artwork allows two or more people, in the street and on the Internet, to have a conversation with each other. 

Internet users choose a picture of a mouth and that mouth is then projected onto the street.
 

Passersby can then hear the person on the internet speaking through loudspeakers. The voice comes over quite naturally, said Collins. The response of the person on the street is documented through hidden microphones and cameras. The internet users view the person on the street through these cameras.

"I was interested in the internet conceptually for ages before using it for a piece of work...I wasn't interested until I could find a way of connecting it to real space/the physical world - and In Conversation was that piece of work."

"In Conversation" has been shown four times throughout Europe; the first time was in 1997 in Brighton, England. 

In Conversation received the most interesting response when it was first shown in 1997 and 1998, said Collins. Technology like that was just coming out and people hadn't seen it before, she said. 

Some people danced on the street. A few were abusive. One fellow actually peed on the image of the mouth Collins had chosen, she said.

"I wanted to break down the barriers between those two forms of public space to see whether people did indeed have anything to say to each other, and what would happen, what behaviors would emerge...communications or otherwise.".

While constructing her artwork, Collins said she is intensely involved and absorbed in it. But the moment the work is out there in the public eye, it's different. She becomes absorbed in the response the work elicits. 

Cruisin,' a chat room, is a recent www artwork that Collins has again become absorbed in. Sometimes she said she feels sad when she leaves the people in the chat room. Unfortunately pirates - hackers - took over the ship and the chat room is out of commission for awhile. 

"I'm very interested in the fact that people stand next to each other in a bus stop, [and don't talk to each other] but then go into chat rooms on the Internet."