Nyx Laakkonen
she/her
Washington Corrections Center for Women
DOC #43176
Bio
“I have been incarcerated since 2019. I am a spiritual, loving an outgoing Leo. Ive moved around my whole life. I thrive outdoors and love drawing. I typically tend to focus on the abstract or portraits that accentuate certain features, I don't draw for accuracy, but for beauty, and there's beauty in everyone, I like to draw attention to that.
Music and art feed my soul, and I also love to sing and dance. Most my playlists are hip hop, rap and R and B. Eminem is my all time favorite.
My mom is also an artist and is a constant stream of inspiration.”
Contact Nyx
Please consider writing to Nyx if you like her work! You can contact her online through Securus, the e-messaging platform used by Washington prisons, or by snail mail. For more instructions and Nyx’s contact information, see our guide here.
"Touched By Healing Hands", blue pic pen on paper, 2025. Two hands in the form of a heart created with an abstract design within the design. Your eyes see what they want to see. Nyx says: "These are my hands. I've been told by many I have the gift of healing through touch, but this truly represents the unique power of touch to communicate what words cannot. "
"Untapp'd", pencil, colored pencil, and highlighter on paper, 2026. A woman with eyes shut and her third eye wide open, with colors and light and swirls expanding from it. Nyx says: "This represents this untapped potential of the mind, particularly the third eye. This drawing was inspired by a prompt through FEPPS for a literary zine. The topic was "Untapp'd", and my submission of this drawing was chosen for distribution within the prison."