Samantha Nianqi Forkin is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in California where she received her BA in Studio Art from Fresno State University. Her current pursuits involve further developing and showing her artwork. With a focus on finding beauty and depth in the everyday and learning to create spaces for us to continue to imagine and develop ways to connect with ourselves and each other.
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NEONQI comes from a homonym I created from my middle name Nianqi, the latterβs meaning βto look at a beautiful piece of jade.β The word neon conjures the alluring glow of neon signs and their beautiful artifice. Qi generally refers to the Chinese concept of the energy that can be found in everything, both living and nonliving. These concepts and the referentiality to myself and my identity has become a stamp in all of my work.