BALANCING CHAOS | "BEETLE"

Nicole McNeill

Shamanic Artist

Nicole McNeill is a Shamanic Artist specializing in automatic drawing and writing of Ancestral Art. She travels full-time as a traveling artist to ancient sites and artifacts. Her shamanic practice brings together yin and yang, expressed through a black-and-white palette. Chaotic linework is transformed into symmetrical forms called "Balancing Chaos", creating a visual dialogue between spontaneity and structure, disorder and balance, the dead and the living.

Influenced by African spirituality, Zen philosophy, and the psychology of Carl Jung, Nicole’s work explores the personal and collective unconscious through archetypal imagery. Carl Jung saw the Shaman as a prototype of the individuation process — a figure who, through personal sacrifice and visionary experience, achieves wholeness of identity of both personal and DNA (Ancestral).

The “wounded healer,” or the Shaman, is a psychological parallel to Carl Jung's work on archetypes, the shadow, and the numinous. Currently, Nicole McNeill is writing a book called, "Living in the Home of the Oppressor", which brings together her automatic drawings and writings from her travels to sacred and ancient sites, such as medicine wheels in National Parks and ancestral landmarks such as slave graveyards in New York City and Ghana.

Her spiritual practice of ancestral reverence was a soul-retrieval process healing from intergenerational trauma, a path of self-healing. As a full-time seeker, spiritual practice becomes a way of making her unseen reality as well as others visible—transforming inner shamanic experiences into symbolic confirmations of lineage between the dead and the living for the home, alters, ancestral art and book shops.