BECOMING XINYI XAN

dearest friend + changing weather season, 🍂 I wanted to write to apologize for any confusion I’ve caused by my recent name change from @piquetures/Nomi to @xinyixan/XinYi… ☕️

mixed media self portrait | photo by Claire Petersen

I first adopted my alias Nomi at quite a young age when I was just being introduced to the internet. Although it was a name I had selected on a whim, it quickly became my “brush name” (my term for a visual artist’s equivalent of a pen name 🎨) and initiated…