Welcome

Whether you arrived here intentionally or simply stumbled across this little corner of my world, I’m glad you found your way here.

What you’ll find is a bit of a wandering path — through Appalachia and ancestry, land and lineage, creativity and intuition, and the things both seen and unseen that connect us to the places we come from and the lives we share.

Appalachia is home. I’ve spent my life in these woods, along these streams and in the waters of Middle Island Creek. The land here isn’t simply the backdrop for what I create; it is part of my story.

Woven through that story are threads of my Scottish ancestry — names, words, and traditions that have found their way back into my life and creative expression.

I connect intuitively with people and animals. I create photographs from things that ask me to look a little closer. And I gather pieces of the Appalachian landscape to create ART· ifacts that hold a bit of the place they came from.

None of it feels separate to me.

It all comes from the same curiosity — about what the land remembers, what we carry with us, what connects us to one another, and what we might discover when we pay attention.

So wander a little.

Follow whatever catches your attention. You may find exactly what you came looking for — or something you weren’t expecting at all.

I’m glad you’re here.

—Becky Nichols