An art instructor, aspiring poet, and mixed media artist, Nicole, creates in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. A gem + mineral enthusiast, eclectic solitary, and consciousness explorer she believes in magic and is moved by the beauty of the nocturnal sky, astronomical phenomena, metaphysics, and cosmology. Nicole attempts to unfold the delicate fabric of self-conscious epistemic moments of knowing. The workings of the universe within ourselves and around us fascinates her while contemplations of these mysteries manifest as conversions populated with textural vibrations, colorful swells and rhythmic compositions in her artwork. Nicole is a practitioner of herbal medicine, empyreal dreamer, and an alchemical philosopher who dwells in a derelict apple orchard surrounded by an extensive collection of houseplants, geological specimens and creature companions.