Fantasy Collage for the LMAC New Round #220

Today's collage is posted in response to the new template offered this month for the LMAC community. Here is the template, offered by @shaka.

I want to start off the month with a fantasy collage. The image reminded me of a scene that might have been from my childhood. Childhood is a time of fantasy. I used to spend my best moments sitting by a stream and daydreaming.

I won't say there was silence. There was always a kind of hum. It was the stream, the insects, the trees moving gently. I think I wouldn't mind at all having my final rest there. Except, there doesn't exist anymore. Like everything else, it has changed.

So my collage is an homage to the fantasies of youth. Education, sophistication, taught me to be more practical. There was an explanation, or a theory, for everything that was mysterious.

NASA tells me why the sky is blue:
Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered more than the other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.

The elegant butterflies flitting from flower to flower--they may only live a couple of weeks--if they don't get eaten first.

And the birds, chirping in the trees--they may simply be waiting to make a meal out of the lovely butterflies.

But when I was child, lying in the grass, listening to the hum around me, none of that was in my mind. I was drifting not in thought, but in feeling. There were surely fantasies. I can't remember any of them, but they were not anchored in science, as I know it now.

My collage is really about what is going on in the mind of that child on the rock. The child who is walking with a large turtle and likely listening the hum of the afternoon.

Elements I thank LIL contributors and several contributors from Pixabay.

Flamingo
@agmoore
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/15552

Boy on Flamingo
karamisc
Pixabay

Child on Rock
taniadamas
Pixabay

Turtle
@agmoore
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/9092

Duck
@muelli
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/8115

Wings on the Duck
@justclickindiva
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/78

Flowers
@yaziris
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/7645

Donkey
@redheadpei
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/6621

Donkey Wings
@justclickindiva
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/76

Fractal in the Trees
@justclickindivia
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/4060

The new format for the LIL contest offers contestants the opportunity to create collages over the span of several weeks. The current contest, Round #220, will end on December 2. Three large prizes with be offered, 45 Hive for first prize, 35 Hive for second prize and 20 Hive for third prize. Finalists are chosen by the jurors (LMAC staff--I'm on the staff so I don't compete), but the final winners are selected by Hive. Everyone on Hive may vote for the winners. Anyone can stop by, upvote their favorite collage and support their Hive colleagues.

Rules for the LMAC contest, copied from the Announcement:

Any graphical element that is added to the template either needs to
be your own original work, derive from the LIL or one of the 👉 whitelisted public domain image services!
📌 Entries containing depictions of violence, political or religious themes are not accepted to the contest and will not be supported.
❗️ Sources for all used materials need to be linked in your entry post. Otherwise your entry can NOT be put up for the final vote, nor will we support it with our trail vote!
📌 Entries need to set the @lmac account as 20% beneficiary to receive support from our trail and to be eligible to receive contest prizes.
📌 Entries need to be posted to the LMAC community.
📌 NEW: A link to this post needs to be a added to the contest entry.
📌 Submissions need to be linked as a comment to this post. Make sure that your collage is displayed in that comment!
❗️We highly encourage all participants to use LIL assets in their collages and will provide additional rewards for doing so:
The contributor of the LIL assets used in your collage needs to be set as 2% beneficiary.
In turn, collages using LIL-assets will be supported with a higher vote weight by our trail!
❗️❗️❗️By submitting your contribution you warrant that your artwork is in your sole ownership and that is free of any copyrighted material. Every participant in the LMAC contest further agrees to hand over their artwork into the public domain and that it can be copied, modified and distributed by others, even for commercial purposes, without requiring further permission.

I hope you like my fantasy collage and I hope it spurs you to join in this month and create a collage of your own.

Thank you for reading. Hive on!