Prologue

In the intricate canvas of digital art, Dolce Paganne emerges as a visual storyteller who embroiders the threads of archetypes, fairy tales, and nightmares into a fabric of surreal imagery. Based in Antwerp and originally from Istanbul, Ceren Aksungur, artistically known as Dolce Paganne, is an artist who breathes life into the "sinister" aspects lurking in the deepest corners of everyday life.

With an obsession for the hypnotic aspects of geometric shapes and a love for building her work around images that evoke sequences of dreams or nightmares, Paganne creates works that are sequences of a trance, like sleep paralysis. Her art, a dance of lines and shapes, invites an exploration of the hidden, the mythological, and the ancestral, through the lens of digital modernity.

Dialogue

➩How would you describe your art using just three words?

Archetypes, Fairytales, Nightmares

➩Could you outline your usual creative process?

My creative process starts inside my brain first and I spend most of the time developing the idea and the effect I wanna transfer to the viewer, looking for something striking that take us back to the roots of our first instincts, the fear. Sometimes it comes in a second like a flashback, sometimes it takes months, even some of them years to get established. I sketch with pencils and some rough collages, I shoot my references or research some CC0 contents I can photomanipulate, prepare my mood boards and when I feel every puzzle piece finds its place I start the most pleasing part, drawing, painting. Although the final result is mostly traditional, I use multiple digital/traditional mediums together to come to the end. Sometimes this process take days, sometimes it gets spread to longer time periods. I work on multiple pieces at the same time.

➩What key advice would you give to someone starting in crypto art?

I hate giving advice, but I'll try: believe yourself first, create your own rules, build your own imaginative world and nobody can stop you anywhere in this world. Haha, but get a ledger for your wallet security first!

➩What are your plans for the short, medium, and long term?

Short: creating works for upcoming exhibitions I’m invited in.

Medium: create a collection I will exhibit irl as a solo show.

Long: create a fiction in the form of a comic book, movie or even a video game or both!

➩Who has been your greatest artistic influence or inspiration?

There are a lot and they are always changing over time, in general, renaissance, surrealism probably inspired me most but the main inspiration is creating process itself. Sometimes a blank paper is inspiring enough.

➩As an individual, what is your most profound aspiration?

Save more money and build my dream art studio with it.

➩If you could ask one question to a specific artist on SuperRare, who would it be and what would you ask?

To Oliver Pocsik: I always love the most that black humour rising from your works. Can you explain ‘vandalism’ you write in your artistic info? Or what inspired you to do such humorous works?

Epilogue

Dolce Paganne gives us a glimpse into a cosmos where art and life meet, where the study of nature and the occult collides with the reading of Asian horror comics and ancient mythology.

While enjoying dark films and immersive music, Paganne keeps dreaming about her ideal art studio, a space where creation knows no limits and each piece is a step further towards the realization of a world where art is an endless adventure and a constantly evolving narrative.