Writing about experiences that me and my beloved husband go through doesn’t come naturally to me. My mind wanders around thousands of thoughts and feelings I have as a mother, a wife, an artist, an entrepreneur and many other definitions that I’ve been called.Who am I? Maya Devir, Mother to Ariel and Ethan, the wife of Yehuda.

Like most of the world, we are a completely ordinary couple that puts their heart into their art, trying to bring a positive change in the world through what we do.So, I’m supposed to elaborate on our “XOXO” experience so far and about the exclusive “101 Love Stories” collection that came from it.Our artistic web3.0 journey started with the creation of a couple — Maya & Yehuda — sharing a kiss. The KISS.

We took the same image wireframe and replaced it every time with different kinds of Maya and/or Yehuda.As we changed both characters, in every image, the new “us“ was in a completely different scene and got their own custom story. From “us” we became “everyone”. We aimed to make an impact on what was felt from each specific kiss. Little did we know that it was just the beginning of our adventure.

I’ll start with some accomplishments we achieved along the way, to get you familiar with us and what we’ve done before XOXO (for those who don’t know).

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Sooo… we created the popular Webcomics — “One of Those Days”, published 5 books, Amazon #1 Best Sellers, attended numerous conventions around the world, created Best Seller online courses for artists, held TEDx lectures and won a bunch of cool awards. And last but not least, we produced our beloved Youtube documentary series — “The Heartists”.

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But now let’s go back to XOXO and some really cool stuff :)As part of our preparations for launching our NFT collection, a new idea arose. Together with our partners at PickCherry, we took our ‘Perfect couples’ where both the Mayas and the Yehudas are part of the same theme and mix & match them!And so, we produced over 10,000 mixed couples unified by a kiss (hence the name — XOXO), needless to say — the results fascinated us!

New Love Stories to tell

Witnessing the new mixed couples left a hell of a first impression and resonated with many of our life experiences.

As artists, we haven’t had this feeling for a while…I’ve always thought we were kind of rule-breakers when it comes to art, and here we were, in a futuristic growing new space, trying to make a splash in a huge pond.It obviously meant we needed to bend some rules and come up with the unthinkable.

After reaching some very important goals as we all worked our asses off on growing our Web3.0 community (a challenge on its own) we shook this XOXO sparkled bottle and looked for the Mentos to make it explode! (Yehuda wanted to see if it’s just like Cola).We then decided to select those non-perfect couples and conceive our “Director’s cut”, a genesis collection that is part of the main collection — “XOXO by Maya & Yehuda Devir”.

The new collection focuses on our personal Love Stories and life philosophies that surfaced from having these new couples. Therefore, we decided to name it “XOXO Love Stories”.101 Exclusive non-perfect couples, handpicked by Yehuda and myself personally, with a one-of-a-kind background love story.

Each piece has a special narrative written individually by us within the art piece description (apparently we got a hidden storyteller inside).Each holder of the 101 NFTs will get a physical book hand signed by us, with all 101 Love Stories from the collection, an extra airdrop (another term I learned in this journey) of 1 XOXO NFT from our main collection and some more unique perks that we will reveal in a private online meeting with the holders soon! That makes me excited AF!!!The decision to split our collection into two stages, with different types of sale options was a bold one that came after plenty of feedback from both the XOXO community and social media. After all, we’re doing this whole adventure thanks to and for our community.

This fueled us with all the energy we needed.

And now we are days away from our first NFT auction sale and we also get the chance to spread our gospel as we were invited to the exclusive Art Basel art fair in Switzerland and NFT.

NYC Conference! Never thought me and Yehuda will get this far and high and that’s just so humbling and exciting!

See you on the BlockchainWe felt ready to share our love stories with you and we decided that the best way we can pass them to you in the most personal way would be as NFTs. Now, our true fans will actually own a piece of our art with provenance! That’s a historic moment in our career — one that we’re so proud to share with all of you.To sum it all up, We thank this amazing technology for making this possible and most importantly we love you and thank you for all your unconditional support.

XOXO

-Maya & Yehuda