Karen Nicloux: Stitching a Healthy Future – Yukon Events Magazine
To talk to her, you wouldn’t think the quiet needleworker Karen Nicloux was once in the upper echelons of our local drug circuit.
Her journey from maximum segregation at Whitehorse Correctional Centre to sobriety is an intricate tapestry.
Central to it is Nicloux’s signature motif, the butterfly.
“If you think about it, a butterfly starts out as a caterpillar, a ground crawler. That’s what I was when I was on coke. Then there’s the process where the caterpillar is cocooned, which you could consider my time in jail, and now that I’m sober it’s like the cocoon opened for a beautiful butterfly to emerge.
