Suppressing Thoughts and Other Matters | LMAC FreeStyle Collage No. 158

I wanted to share with you my current freestyle collage. My theme entails my own personal perspective during my lifetime of observing society and how their views are influenced and determined. My style of collage is a Freestyle in which I wasn't required to utilize any contest photo in my design. However, if you'd like to join in the current contest round, visit: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 248 - ✨31 HIVE in the Prize Pool!.

How do you see the world and events unfolding before your eyes? Do you engage with the current atmosphere to learn more while studying both sides of an issue? Do you believe what others tell you and how you should proceed? Or, do you just sit idle and wait for issues to resolve themselves, then think, c'est la vie! I call this going along to get along. No harm, no foul.

I love to see young adults engaged in all aspects of their lives. That way, they can understand at an early age what makes the world operate and how.

This is only my opinion as I see how the world turns today. Individuals might fall into the following categories:

Backward looking and therefore non-innovative thinking. A negative approach perhaps that follows those who deviate from the norm and present ideas and philosophy not of a reasonable man. In a desire to prevent those individuals from free speech and thought, they may use demagoguing tactics meant to suppress others thoughts and actions. Even more harmful are those who intentionally sway support by fearmongering playing upon biases.

Middle passage with calm thoughts enabling individuals to take in both sides of an issue when weight in, often assessing situations taking into account the positive and negative aspects. Often, choices are limited, so one has to proceed with the best intentions, hoping for the best outcome with the information presented at the time.

Forward thinking where views are totally progressive, full steam ahead. Often discarding negativity and agreeable with all advancements that benefit society as a whole. Sometimes a target for others who can't grasp the concept of inclusion, tolerance, and acceptance.

Then those young adults can take the information and decide for themselves which one of the three categories they desire to operate from.

In preparing my theme, I wanted to show different individual aspects of thinking and how people absorb information. I included an #LIL asset that resembled an exposed brain. I felt it perfect for my theme since the cells appear to be hiding. I placed people at three different parts of the brain.

Below are the steps and images I included to complete my theme in which I utilized Canva to blend the different type images. Below are my steps in which I began with a blank, white canvas, then added layers of elements, removing backgrounds, resizing, detaching elements from their backgrounds, duplicating, colorizing, and repositioning items as needed incorporating the tools at my disposal in my Annual Pro Membership Subscription.

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Item	Contributor	Source
LMAC-Round 248 Contest Image	Contributed to #LIL by Hive account@agmoore	Link
Brains exposed	Contributed to #LIL by Hive account@seckorama	Link
Man with hands up	Contributed to #LIL by Hive account@alex2alex	Link
Surrealistic Man's Mounted Head	Pixabay	Link
Arabesque weave	Pixabay	Link
Abstract-Black strings on yellow background	Pixabay	Link
Abstract-Purple Curve Texture	Pixabay	Link
Red Flowers	Contributed to #LIL by Hive account@drydia	Link
Monster Eye	Contributed to #LIL by Hive account@eve66	Link
Pure Fractal titled "Devil Fire"	Hive account@justclickindiva	Link
Orbiting planets	Pixabay	Link
People sitting on beach	Pixabay	Link

Below is my completed collage:

Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my freestyle collage theme.