THE OTHERWORLDY
WITH THE FAMILIAR
Changing what you’ve read, seen and heard. Nichole transformers generational stories, myths, folktales, and her own personal imaginative journey into an unconventional multi-mixed media exhibit.
LORE
“You can call it mixed media, but even I can’t replicate it. Self-taught, obsessed, and unwilling to follow rules—my work is what happens when memory collides with mythology and survives.”
Nothing here is reproducible. Each artwork is a collision of memory, instinct, and physicality—built from fragments of my personal photography, ink sketches, and layered, intuitive visual impressions. My process begins on surface, then digitally edited, where these fragments become raw emotional impressions; chaotic structures I obsessively arrange, manipulate, and disrupt until they hold just enough familiarity to resonate, but enough disorder to haunt.
Once printed on a canvas with wood backing, the real complexity begins.
Some pieces demand meticulous linework with oil and acrylic based paint pens, a relentless layering of hand-drawn patterns that consume hours until the canvas vibrates with depth. Others evolve further, with gritty textures, sand, glitter, debris, filling shadow and void. Then there are the fully immersive works, saturated in resin, embedded with found objects, carved with relief and heavy-handed layers that become sculptural, tactile memories.
The process is unplanned, unpredictable, and demanding. Each piece insists on its own path, an exhausting dialogue of trial, error, frustration, and obsession.
What emerges isn’t merely created, it’s survived.
A surface that’s earned its existence, something raw and alive, impossible to recreate, even by me.
