“Shadows” as a painting collection by Gunes Caglarcan, reflects the fascination with the idea of how humans are socially connected. Although each person has a wide pallet of unique characteristics, people seek any degree of relationship with each other. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explains the relationship between social status and the mental state, where the level of social connection is explained in each degree. This concept has become the overall form of the painting where each individual and different human figures constructed the texture. The work is a result of different filters that affect human perception. The human brain decodes the ball of oil painting into human body parts, shadows underline the directions by acrylic, bulkiness of the figures forges details, light manipulates the structure, and many more. In addition to the harmonic consistency in the general form of each work, the textures create unique compositions when the details of the figures are elaborated. With these compositional elements filtered by human perception, unfinished stories, lived or not lived, sorrows, past experiences and unique journeys find their place in the “Shadows Collection”.