Marilla Palmer’s recent watercolor collages feel like collaborations with Mother Nature. She paints from living wild flowers and presses them onto Arches paper, yielding unpredictable and fragile collage elements. Photography, fabric and other materials such as sequins and glitter blur the distinction between the real and the artificial. Her work calls into question: Is there any place on the planet where man hasn’t impacted nature? Palmer draws attention to the beauty, power and fragility of nature and the important role we have in protecting it.