Hello, first of all, thank you very much for your questions. I am Adyali. I was born in Üsküdar, Istanbul, on August 26, 1999. Until very recently, I lived in Istanbul; now, I have relocated to Eskişehir with my husband. I graduated from Yeditepe University, Department of Translation and Interpreting. Throughout my university education, I worked in many different translation fields and studied several languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Ancient Greek. I discovered my curiosity for languages at a very early age; I had started teaching myself Japanese and was translating English songs I loved into Turkish. I was a child who had been painting for as long as I can remember, causing trouble for my family by painting on the walls of the living room and furniture. When I was just 10 years old, due to my mother’s work, I visited a painter’s house in Şile and had the chance to chat with him in his studio. Much later, I learned that he was the esteemed Mustafa Ata. Later on, I met Baris—now my husband—a very talented musician who composes, performs, and shares his own music, managing the entire creative process down to the album cover design, under the moniker "Uzayzaman Yolcusu" (Space-Time Traveler). Thanks to him, I remembered my artistic journey—the most sincere way I had communicated with the outside world in my childhood—and dedicated myself entirely to producing my art, leaving languages with their strict rules simply as an area of interest. I have been painting since 2018. In 2021, I realized a performance called "Insargi"—a portmanteau I derived from the Turkish words for "human" (insan) and "exhibition" (sergi). In it, a few friends carried my paintings and paused to form a temporary exhibition wall, critiquing the functioning and gatekeepers of traditional galleries that require you to pay to participate. Through Insargi, I discovered how powerful performance art is. Thus, I added performance art to my creative mediums. Most recently, in September, I carried out a performative painting installation named "Hang Me." I placed a total of 65 of my works—created up to that point—onto the streets that had inspired me, tagged with "Hang Me" labels so that anyone who liked them could take them home. As for Adyali, in the simplest terms, it is the mirror-reversed version of my given birth name, Ilayda. It is the name of an alter ego I created at the exact point I decided to become artist: a driving force to push beyond myself as I knew it and to do things I hadn't done before. Sometimes, I ask myself, "Did I paint this?", and my answer is, "Adyali did." I never restrict myself during my creative process, and I push thinking into the background. I believe that artists who came before me and my contemporaries meet in a common collective subconscious channel, and that whatever is called upon as inspiration simply flows out from the hands of the artist available at that moment. At a point where everything turns into data, can be fragmented, and reassembled, I define inspiration like a signal broadcast from a multi-channel radio that reaches you if you are on the same frequency as the receiver. To be the person who can receive that order (inspiration) at that exact moment and to be in a position to transmit what arrives, I make myself lean and unencumbered. Because I am quite certain—and have experienced it many times before—that if you do not act the moment an idea or the inspiration carrying it arrives, you encounter that idea or a very similar feeling finding its place in another work. In other words, if you don't make it, someone else completes that order. This reinforces my belief in the existence of a shared creative subconscious channel with other creative people who open themselves up to this experience. To create this private environment for myself, I grow silent, withdraw, and—following the movement appearing in my mind—I take care to transfer it to my canvas as it is, without a preliminary sketch. Whatever I add afterward, I make sure it appeals solely to my own taste. I believe what matters is the creative process itself and the motivation behind making art.