Did you turn the stove off? Are you sure you turned the stove off? Go check the stove. Is it off? Now that you’ve turned your back, are you sure it’s actually off? Life has changed a lot. I don't live in fight or flight anymore. Often, but not always. I got a divorce and started chapter 2. I started to find people in my life who would show me how to use a lawnmower, advocate for myself, and that I deserve kindness. People who help me do the work. People who help me heal. I'm going to be ok, and I know I'm more ok than I was. Little steps, but things are better.

-Nicole

“My portrait practice stems from a deep interest in people, consciousness and how personality and personal history, including struggle, loss, grief, challenge, trauma and triumph manifest themselves in the physical. How do we use the artist's eye to understand that which we cannot see?”                  

  - Carol Wylie

Carol Wylie has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions across Canada and in the United States. Her project of holocaust and residential school survivor portraits entitled, ‘They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds’, has toured Western Canada. She has work in private and public collections, including SK-Arts, the Mann Art Gallery, and the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron.