Drowning In Ambition | nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for July: The Four Elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire) - WATER theme

NFTShowroom partnered with @alienarthive for a July Earth, Water, Air, and Fire CHALLENGE. According to the challenge post, NFTShowroom will feature all the month's four elements themed Art minted on the NFT Showroom home page / twitter and Alien Art Hive will be curating participants' blog posts.

This challenge is for the full month of July. To join in check out NFTShowroom's challenge post here: nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for July: The Four Elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire)

To participate:

• Make art incorporating the Four Elements (Earth, Water, Air, or Fire) themes
• mint it on https://nftshowroom.com/
• make a blog post about it in Alien Art Hive
• use nftshowroom& in your tags

Below is my collage design depicting the Water theme.

The design is titled Drowning In Ambition. What I like about this image is the female's solemn face. Her expression is one of sadness. It could also be regret.

Often, individuals pursue dreams and ambitions. Some begin small and work their way up to achieve their desires. However, while climbing the ladder of success, they weave a tale of woe and leave a trail of destruction.

When working in the corporate world, I knew several individuals who climbed in ranks on the backs of others. By "backs" we all associate that term with a devious or deceitful purpose, harming others along the way. A more popular term is "backstabbing."

After achieving all she hoped for and planned, in the end her accomplishments only brought heartache. Her end game ambition outweighed her talents. The methods and tactics devised and promoted backfired when she least expected it.

In my corporate environment, employees were indoctrinated with a business model. One segment of the business model dealt with individuals who, for whatever reason unknown to others, rose quickly in the ranks of authority. Those individuals were later discovered not to have the capacity or skills to hold the positions. The term applied to these situations was "The Peter Principle". A sad situation to watch unfold as it wasn't a pretty sight when the problems unraveled.

In my project, as you can see, the young woman exposed retreated to the her only true refuge. The shore. Broken.

The information for my design minted on NFTShowroom.

CREATION PROCESS:

First, I created the still version in Canva, my design program to blend the different type images. in which uploaded all images and began with a blank, white canvas. I then added layers of elements.

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Images I included are listed below. I retrieved the glass design and planets from StarryAI, a stable diffusion program. The image of a mermaid worked well with my water theme.

StarryAI	StarryAI	Free-Sourced
Text Input: "A photo of a tall, clear glass containing a vibrant ocean wave. The wave is crashing powerfully against the glass, with splashes of water breaking over the rim. In the background of the wave, a beautiful sunset with vivid orange and yellow hues lights up the horizon. The lower part of the glass holds swirling layers of color—red, violet, blue—resembling the dynamic movement of both water and light. The glass sits on a wooden surface, with a deep blue sky framing the scene."	Text input: "Universe with multiple planets that have eyes. No facial features."	Mermaid in abstract with colored face.
Quality: Fast / Seed: 34573540 / Image Strength: 15	Style: Dark fantasy.	Source

Next, I used the still version to create the video in Mosh (previously, PhotoMosh). The settings I activated were: Melt / Smear / Hue Cycle. The tool used to create the different color blend was Hue Cycle. I also used the Splitter resulted in a type of glitch.

Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my mixed media collage project for the July Water Theme.