Me, Myself, and I - A Love Story | nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for February: Theme: "Love" - No 2

Me, Myself, and I - A Love Story

I love myself. I must. For I'm different from some. They see me as not conforming to their standards, so I'm shunned. An outcast.

But I love me some Me.

I love how I look at the world around me with sorrow and empathy. But mostly with contempt. I say contempt for the country I reside in because some have lost their spine; their decency; their honor; their convictions; and themselves to allow this once great country to sink into the depths of disgrace.

I love the many faceted ethnic groups, realizing no matter what, we are all one people and should be treated with respect and dignity as you would want yourself to be treated.

I love how I interpret people, their disdain for me, their sarcasm, and belittlement, then reversing it, molding them into a parable to live by.

I love how I walk ahead and not behind those who have no mind of their own, but follow others into the depths of deception, despair, and all things beyond what a reasonable man would undertake.

I love my inner creative imagination, however dark and extremely dramatic it may be from time to time.

I love how I view nature, a separate by equal part of ourselves and the planet.

From all different angles and viewpoints;
From the dark, and from the light.

I love me some Me.

In the post, [nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for February: nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for February: love, NFTShowroom has featured all the month's love themed Art minted so far on the NFT Showroom's home page / twitter. Also, Alien Art Hive will be curating participants' blog posts. This challenge was intended for the full month of February. Participants are required to:

• make art incorporating love themes;
• mint it on https://nftshowroom.com/;
• make a blog post about it in Alien Art Hive; and
• use #nftshowroom in your tags

Below are my steps I took to create my second design for this theme.

The information for my mint on NFTShowroom.

My Creation Process:

For creation of the "love" scene in this design, I called upon one of the stable diffusion programs I frequently use, StarryAI. From my descriptions, I was able to retrieve several images to accompany a free-sourced one. Uploading all images into Canva, my design program, I added layers of elements.

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Images included in my design:

^{Female ~ StarryAI - Universe with rotating planets}

I then Moshed my still design by taking it to Photo Mosh. Using the STRETCH filter, I was able to elongate the image horizontally. This served my theme as my ability to go beyond myself.

Next, I returned to Canva to insert the love design and words.

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In PhotoMosh I also created another version with the Kaleidoscope filter to see how it would turn out:

Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my final mixed media project for the February love challenge.

Good luck everyone with whatever your endeavors.

SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/

English is my native language.
If translation included, I use DeepL to assist my readers.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.