Nicky da Kiid˚ // kid˚MANDU

Hi ~

my name is Nicky – iM an Earth Shaman, and i make Sacred Documents from within my LiFe container.

my First Life was filled w/ many challenges from complex ptsd & chronic illness to growing up poor as a puerto rican korean queer Kid˚ in a small hood somewhere in queens, nyc. my life would often start and stop w/ each new challenge. i never really got where i was going because of the stops.

as i grew older, i struggled to root into my own LiFe, running back and forth b/w America & Korea throughout my 20s. i was always searching for answers outside of my Self. i’ve walked many lives, and i have grieved many deaths. and i have lived in the space between spaces, hidden in plain sight, most of all… from Self.

Psychedelics had the most profound effect on my well-being. they have changed my LiFe, and saved it too.

iM still on my Healing Journey, but i know who I am now. i re-member that i am F R e  E ~

so i move slowly and w/ intention now, my heart is huge and i honor the deep feelings that come w/ it.

my Art reflects the stories of my LiFe – carrots w/ ancient wisdom (and faces), kaiju-sized spirit guardians w/ flowers growing out of their backs, small white cats in the vastness of post-rain desert skies. my one job is to render the images i receive from Source God Energy like iM pulling Polaroids from the Spirit Realm.

while it was often difficult for me to get what i truly needed from family of origin, i now understand what it took for them to try anyway. no one is given the tools to truly thrive as Empaths in our society. [media] continues to sensationalize and capitalize off conflict & excitement when our Ancestral Bodies have been needing such Deep Radical Rest for so long.

we’re all hurting, we’re all healing. we’re all just trying to be here, and move through so much grief next to all of our joy.

Our Planet is on the brink and we keep looking the other way. people covet other people having excess, while excess is quickly killing us.

iM here to ask you – do you ever pause near a window just to watch dust particles mix w/ morning light?

when was the last time you danced w/ a Wall?

a  R  e    yo  u     F  R  e E  ?

my First Life ended somewhere around the tail end of 2024. i was 37, I quit my last day job to build an Art Studio dedicated to Spirit Freedom & Slow Movement – [kid˚MANDU | est. 2024]

[M∆NDU | 만두] is the Korean word for ‘dumpling’ and now, i make things that nourish my inNer CHiLD.

peace love + light,
Nicky da Kiid˚