Nicole's Story Behind The Painting:

My choice is to heal is also choosing to name the layers. And some things must be said first without words before they can be named, put into words.

By painting over. Creating layers. Peeling them back. Diluting. Covering. Unmasking. Scraping. Looking underneath.

There's also the spark, the exhilaration, that wordless knowing that there had to be more to life than what I'd already experienced. The intuition underneath all of this.