For these large-scale paintings, Nicole works on the floor, spreading custom impasto onto the canvas with enormous brushes and trowels, shaping spaces, ridges, and furrows in an additive/subtractive process. In a nod to a 2018 study proposing pink as the first color of life on Earth, the painting is infused with a soft pink organic pigment. This artwork radiates an ethereal, luminous quality, making it an optimistic and life-affirming piece.