BALANCING CHAOS | "DANCING BUTTERLY"

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 indigenous 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 (Oracle work), 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 philosophy book called, "Living in the Home of the Oppressor", which brings together her automatic drawings and writings from her shamanic experiences.

Her spiritual practice of ancestral reverence was a soul-retrieval process healing from intergenerational and complex attachment trauma of being African American, 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 her spirit journey into symbolic and written confirmations between deceased ancestors and living descendants.