During the last two decades, Marsha Boston’s work has centered on the myths and concepts that have defined our relationship to nature. Her love for botany evolved out of her concern over the uncertain realities of genetic engineering, the accelerated speed of human dominion over nature, and her reverence for the miraculous design of plants. Currently, she is exploring medicinal plants used by California indigenous societies. The organic forms in her work begin as representational drawings. Then through repetition and kinetic memory the drawings are simplified and combined with open color. For her, the language of the marks and colors parallel the subtler more invisible qualities of the plants.