Sparks Fly Contest – Unleash Your Creativity & Win Hive Daily!
Today’s Theme: "Bottled Me: The Juice of My Soul"
(If your personality were a juice, what flavors would it be made of? Sweet and spicy? Sour with a fizz of mischief? Design the label, describe the taste, or show what happens when someone takes a sip of YOU!)
According to the contest post, ideas for submissions can be:
- colorful drink label design with your traits as ingredients;
- short story or ad describing the juice’s effectsl
- visual or photo art of your “bottled self”;
- A skit, poem, or scene about someone drinking your soul juice.
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I share my entry for today.
"Fermented Hope In the Face of Dystopia"
For it's only a short while your pain will last.
Ready for the chaos of this dark, dreary world,
you were not.
Hurry! Come nigh to this well of hope.
Drink deeply of this sweet remembrance of what was
and can be again.
Quench your thirst for life in this desolate place.
For I will be your fountain.
I will be your sustenance.
But from where do you draw your strength?
they ask, quivering under the doom of darkness.
My strength cometh from a place you've long tossed aside
for the bounties of that world.
Now you're left with nothing.
But I offer you one last chance.
Come, for the time draws near where no water
will flow from my lips.
Come.
@justclickindiva 2025
For my current mixed media art project, I decided on a poem and a bottle collage for the Sparks Fly Contest prompt. For the bottle of hope, I utilized the stable diffusion program, StarryAI, to retrieve the lovely female offering hope to a desolate people. For the pure fractals created by me, I utilized the advanced version of the fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X.
Below are my steps:
StarryAI Text input:
"I'm a beautiful woman of color trapped inside a Klein bottle. But I'm smiling as I have hope for the future in this dystopian world. I pour out my soul with wine flowing to help you see the future is not grim.."
Style: Vivid Creeps
StarryAI Result:
I utilized Canva, my design program, to blend the different type images. I leave with you my procedures which began with a blank, white canvas. I then added layers of elements in accordance with my upgraded Annual Pro Membership that includes tools to remove backgrounds, resize, filter, duplicate, and reposition items as required. Perhaps of all the tools, the ability to remove backgrounds thereby creating transparencies of the images is crucial to the blending process.
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I share with you my completed project:
Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my mixed media art project.
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/
If translation included, I use DeepL to assist my readers.
Thanks for your patience an understanding.
El inglés es mi lengua materna.
Si se incluye traducción, utilizo DeepL para ayudar a mis lectores.
Gracias por su paciencia y comprensión.