Nikki Andrade

Prologue

You Are Art

Hand-drawn sketch — You Are Art in My Eyes

You are matter + therefore you are art. If you choose to be, that is.

My life's work is rooted in legacy, purpose and expansion.

It wasn't too long ago that I decided Art was going to be the most important thing in my life. Or rather, love. And everything I do to create more love in my life.

I'm quite an intense person I've been told and maybe that's because I just know; that we only have so much time in this physical world. And I don't want to undo anything here I've already set out to do.

When I use the word art, I fully mean the way we live our life. Because art is alive + profoundly eternal. What we create - the things, experiences, innovations and feelings that come from our breath. Art is so much more than pretty paintings, in fact pretty paintings are just good design. Art is everything else. And yet everything is art because everything is love.

I have organized this portfolio into a way I feel is best for how I interpret the physical world.

Babies are a metaphor for creations, Seed is an analogy for all the support I've miraculously received, Womb is my daily process of what turns seeds into gravity, walking living beings... And Mothering, well she is our gratitude living in free air.

They take on completely different forms of their own. With their own identities and their own names. They are not mine to own or call home. But they are mine to share, protect, foster and understand.

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Cover artwork for Sophia's House

Sophia's House

Literature  ·  2026

In Sophia's House, Nikki weaves together three distinct literary forms into a single journey. It begins with the story of Sophia—and of two people from different cultures who could never quite see eye to eye. What begins as a deeply personal journey quietly becomes the founding story of the very first Sophia's House—a place that challenges not only the way we learn, but the way we structure our lives, our relationships, and our understanding of time itself.

Set in sixteenth-century France and written in the style of Old English, Sophia's House imagines not only what might have happened, but what still could.

It is more than a work of literature.

It is the beginning of a living community working to open the doors of the first real Sophia's House—one conversation, one story, and one neighborhood at a time.

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Sueños

Pre-Historic Essays  ·  Just Released

A living exploration of the collective subconscious, expressed through shifting realities.

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Welcome to My Pueblo

Essays  ·  Coming Soon

A woman experiences amnesia after falling asleep on a popular beach in Jamaica, only to wake up in an uncannily familiar town where everyone knows her dog's name but not hers. Salir si puedes—leave if you can—the town is nicknamed because it doesn't appear to have an entrance nor an exit. As we follow the journey of this woman, we discover how she finally remembers her name and discovers her escape route.

Cover artwork for Wild You

Wild You

Poetry  ·  2022

The greatest treasures in life cannot be bought, found or given. Wild You takes us into a journey of a soul finding its way back home.

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Stories that awaken our heart