Molly Bosley is an artist after my own heart. Her body of work includes embroi­dery, col­lages, and even dio­ra­mas — a few of my favorite things right now. With their color and exe­cu­tion, I find her col­lages to be my favorite part of her portfolio.

Molly’s has titled her 2010 body of work “The Nature of Things”, which she has writ­ten a bit about it:

The Nature of Things depicts imag­i­nary land­scapes inhab­ited by fig­ures from dis­cor­dant imagery. Each scene is sourced from entirely dif­fer­ent ori­gins, yet the char­ac­ters within are gath­ered as famil­iars. This col­lec­tion of art­work explores a fas­ci­na­tion with the unaware­ness, unfa­mil­iar­ity, unso­phis­ti­ca­tion, and unworld­li­ness of inno­cence in con­trast with the inevitable impu­rity ingrained in human nature. The com­bi­na­tion of dif­fer­ent tech­niques and mate­ri­als empha­size the con­trasts which exist in these scenes. Much like reflec­tions of our liv­ing world, these things come together and cre­ate a chaotic balance.

I think that Molly has achieved this — the gath­er­ing not only is phys­i­cal, but with ideas as well.

All images via her web­site.