We have all heard about Grimm Stories when we were growing up, I am sure. Even if you didn’t know the name of the authors, you’ve probably heard about these unsettling cautionary tales. I don’t exactly know how these stories are cautionary, as they end very absurdly. Before we delve into this particular story, let me tell you a bit about myself as this is the first post ever.

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My name is Candan. It means “sincere” in Turkish. My parents raised me to be sincere just as our family name because that was the only way for my family. The one thing that lacked in my childhood was the encouragement to become an artist. Unfortunately in my country, artists don’t make enough money and I always had to keep that in mind. I remember drawing doodles on my desk when I was still at school and I knew that every day, they would be cleaned by the staff. The next morning it was all gone, and I drew again. It quickly became an art form for me; creating, even though you knew your creation would be erased eventually. This was a story for me, I liked the fact that what I created was going to be erased, not seen by anyone at all. Maybe the cleaning staff, but I’m sure they didn’t care, after cleaning hundreds of desks.

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I discovered myself again in this world thanks to Web3. A couple of years ago, I had Tumblr, Instagram, and all kinds of Web2 tools to share my works with people. I don’t know why, but life got to me so I never did. After studying Web3 and NFTs I finally had the courage to share my creations with people. I was amazingly lucky that my works have been discovered by people quickly. Oh please don’t judge me when I say quickly, it actually took 6 months for me to make it. Many of my friends who got into NFTs talk about how they can’t be seen by people, please wait. Keep on creating. Ok, this is another day’s topic!

I started to share my doodles in my first collection called “Non-Fungible Doodles” on Foundation. The pieces in that collection didn’t have a particular subject in mind. I was just creating whatever I had in my mind, without thinking much about it. You know they call the first collection “the genesis collection” in this world. My genesis collection is about the entrance to this world. My genesis piece is “Non-Fungible Dreams” and is about me and all the things I had in my dreams.

I kept following my dreams in this collection. All the other pieces had a different story when I was creating them. Some of them were very emotional and very dear to me, I can’t talk about all of my feelings when I created them here. Again, it’s another day’s topic.

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I would like to thank each and every one of my collectors here. Their support and their boost gave me the energy and motivation I needed. So I created my second collection called “Classical Doodles”. I am a sucker for classical oil paintings. I admire them, can stare at them for hours to understand the artist’s emotions. I could never make an oil painting probably… Well, I tried once. Didn’t like what I created. Here is an example 👇

So I wanted to combine classical oil paintings with my own doodles. I checked the licensing information and found out that many classical oil paintings are actually copyright free right now. Check them out on this beautiful site: Artvee

I was trying to tell a twisted story with my doodles on these paintings. Since I was a little kid, I always believed that there is a parallel universe. I still watch Fringe after many years the show is finished. In these works of mine, I believed that there is a parallel universe where everybody is free to show their true faces, without the masks we wear every day in our own universe. I mean these masks that I drew on paintings were not masks, but they were people’s real faces actually. We wear different masks every day in accordance with the situations we are in. Should we wear them, or should we show everyone our true faces? I don’t know.

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Here I am with Monochromatic Stories now. I love Grimm stories. Didn’t like them much when I was little, but now I enjoy them after a glass of whisky. I mean what is going on really in these stories? How cautionary they are to little children? I don’t know the answers to these questions, but I know that I enjoy them because they make me think about them. I try to find answers to the questions, and I would like to take you on a journey with me to find more questions together. These illustrations are just a different interpretation by me, to get you to the same frequency with me.

Hope you enjoy my little story about me. I felt the need to connect to you through these little posts I make. More to come soon.

Thank you.

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