MELTEM ARIKAN

  Türkçesi Aşagıda 👇 Not all healing speaks in words.  Some of it flows in curves. Some settle in colour. Some rest in the quiet between lines. For me, Neurographica® isn’t just drawing. It’s a conversation with something beyond language.A way the soul speaks in shape. A way the hand translates emotion into form. The mind shifts as the ink moves across the page. I’ve drawn every day for over a year now. Each page has become a companion. Sometimes grounding. Sometimes, like meditation. Sometimes unexpectedly magical. But always transformational. There are moments when I see myself clearly again.  When something deep inside moves. Not slowly, but all at once.  It can feel unreal, but it happens right there. Pen on paper. Breathe steady. Line by line. Not all maps are made of roads. Some are spirals. Sharp turns. Tangled threads that begin to loosen as you trace them. Neurographica is that kind of map. A way back to yourself. You draw what hurts. You soften what feels ...

  Türkçesi Aşagıda👇 I’ve always felt different. Too much. Too intense. Too easily overwhelmed. Knows too much but believes too easily. My existence has always been a chain of contradictions. I was born into chaos and silence in Turkey. At five, a car crash shattered my family. My mother never came home. Grief arrived early, and never really left.  It learned to live in me, quietly. I wrote to make the world bearable and to wrap words around the ache, to bring order to the noise. But I still didn’t belong. They called me sharp-tongued, dangerous, unruly. One of my books was banned. I was judged, criticised, and reduced. So I masked. I doubted myself. I learned to disappear while appearing strong. No matter how much I created, something kept pressing in, like I was made of static in a world that only accepts silence and smoothness. In 2013, my absurdist play Mi Minor,  a mirror held up to imagined power, became the target of a hate campaign. They said I inspired ...