Alchemies of the T r ansVisible

Elle Nicolaï is a Los Angeles based "artist of the spirit", and philanth r opist, fully dedicated to healing and transformation through transpersonal a r t.

                As an integral a r tist, Elle Nicolaï’s cosmos of c r eation emb r aces a non- r efe r ential time/space continuum … In an intuitive neo-abst r act style, she displays contemplative, transcendental a r t, sac r ed symbology, and manifest animatism… the way of the shaman. He r a r tistic r ange – f r om paintings, to abst r act digital photography and mixed media wo r k , is fu r the r evidence of an unbounded view of the possible fo r ms of visual and spatial healing.

                 In he r own wo r ds, “The c r eative p r ocess may imply t r ansfo r mation of the a r tist as a pathway fo r the spi r it (o r ene r gy) of c r eation itself… Du r ing meditation, d r eams, o r  state of hypnogogia, visual and tonal manifestations can make thei r imp r int independently f r om the “Self.” I t begins as inne r vision in moments of contemplation, in theta o r delta b r ain states. The unfolding involves t r anslating and r ende r ing in 3-dimensional r eality what is “seen” th r ough the inne r eye.

                 Laye r ing is within ou r envi r onment, ou r wo r lds, and pe r ception, as it is within ou r selves. If one conside r s the notion of pa r allel r ealities and multi-dimensional planes, the p r emise of t r anspe r sonal a r t, o r t r ansfo r mative a r t, might just be an o r ganic and natu r al occu r r ence, fo r both the viewe r and the c r eato r of the a r t as simultaneously obse r ve r s and pa r ticipants. “

                 Symbols find thei r way on most pieces of he r wo r k, “a unive r sal language that t r anscends wo r ds, fo r only images can evoke the soul’s a r chitectu r e.” In a language of alchemy, they fu r the r info r m he r visual domain, quietly suggesting an extended, eve r p r esent na r r ative and glyphic vocabula r y.