Universal Generations Remembered | nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for January: Theme: Memories - No 1 (Minted)

Universal Generations Remembered

"Shush...listen up, Xemoria. It's imperative you learn of your grandfather's lineage," her mother scolded.

As the daughter of General Zinuth's Concubine No. 1, Nephre dared not disobey his orders. Teaching his grandchildren of their royal heritage was law. Forbidden was any other ancestral knowledge. Nephre sighed, her shoulders slumped, then remembered her own lineage.

A fierce warrior, her maternal grandmother led the invasion that founded the planet. Her heritage qualified her as worthy of the General's attention and affection. But she was not of this world.

Nephre's impulse to admonish her daughter grew intense, then glanced at her small frame. I shouldn't press the issue so soon, she thought with a heavy heart. She's still so young.

But I must.

Else she'll forget her grandmother's touch and face. The face of a foreign being unlike her, a small inner voice screamed.

Nephre recalled the harsh upbringing and training she endured. Her mother would only embrace her each night, urging her not to resent her father and leader.

"Daughter, listen and remember my teachings," Nephre urged, then showed her the picture in the delicate frame she'd hidden all those years.

She began.

"One day you'll rise up and replace your grandmother's standing. I live for that day, my daughter. For we must not forgot our past, but embrace it and the true nature of our lineage. There are others out there in the universe who don't look like us. We are all creatures of a high being. Your grandfather is not all powerful. He's not in control of the universe. Never forget that!"

Xemoria merely smiled, reached out at the picture frame and peered for several long moments as though the image spoke silently to her.

In the post, nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for January: memories, NFTShowroom has featured all the month's memories 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 January. Participants are required to:

• make art incorporating the memories theme;
• 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 first design for this theme.

This version is the image I chose to mint on NFTShowroom:

Information for my tokenized design on NFTShowroom.

My Creation Process:

In creating the "memories" scene in this design, I felt that a picture frame is a symbol that some type of memory will be inserted into it. You can always count on that. A memento. A cherished moment between friends or family. A family or other gathering, or an achievement or award of importance.

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Next, uploading the stable diffusion image, together will all other images into Canva, my design program, I added layers of elements. Below is the still version from blending the images.

I took this final Canva version above to LUNAPIC for filtering.

FILTER #1:

The first filter I applied was Reflection Water with the bottom portion resembling a reflection pond. I produced an animation and still version of the reflecting pond.

FILTER #2:

The second filter was to apply layers as shown below to achieve a two-person layered effect that would cast a shadow of the alien's former life before her mother was abducted and taken to a another galaxy.

To achieve the two-layered effect, I needed a background and foreground image.

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Below is the result of the layering in LUNAPIC:

Images included in my design:

^{Woman sitting down with child in frame ~ Eye on top of pyramid ~ Hooded figure with crystal ball ~ Phoenix}

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