We Saw What You Did, and We Know Who You Are | nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for October: Spirits Theme No. 2

No matter where you are and what your mission is once you step outside your home, you are being observed. You may or may not know it or who is watching you. There's no escaping this fact.

Humans are the most curious of animals, I believe. Often, I observe individuals when I travel. They have no idea I'm watching their movements and behaviors. A simple trip to the convenience store to fuel or to the grocers provides insights into individuals in that setting as they arrive and depart.

One such behavior that fascinates me is the practice of returning shopping carts to their assigned stations after use. Not many individuals take time to return them. I have to say that I always do.

Not because it's a courtesy to my own vehicle and others people or that I know the security cameras or others are watching, but because I've been the victim of runaway carts attacking my car. I've also witnessed it personally being done to others' cars when the carts shift gears to heads for unsuspecting victims nearby.

I relied upon my observation for my second Spirit design.

In the post, nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for October: SPIRITS, NFTShowroom has featured all the month's Geometry 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 September. Participants were required to:

• make art incorporating the Spirits 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 this second design.

I decided to again tackle an animated version of my design to show movement of eyes watching from all directions. My theme is titled We Saw What You Did, and We Know Who You Are.

The information for my mint on NFTShowroom.

My Creation Process:

For creation of the spirits emanating from the various eyes, I discovered a suitable free-sourced image that contained several eyes placed in the scene.

I also included a pure fractal I created in the advanced fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X to add a veil over the image to highlight an eerie quality. For the eyes, I include several stable diffusion images I designed in StarryAI.

Uploading all images into Canva, my design program, I created a still version by blending them. adding layers of elements. First, I detached several elements in each stable diffusion eye image from their backgrounds to maneuver them across the canvas.

When finished with the still version below, I used the services of Deep Dream Generator to produce the video.

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I forgot to add the Mandala veil to the still version, so I returned to Canva to combine the animation with the veil I also designed in Apophysis 7X.

Images included in my design:

^{Lush fantasy landscape ~ Eyes ~ Female ~ Black water fountain ~ Eye and body - Contributed to the #LIL by @seckorama ~ StarryAI Landscape - Inner Reset button ~ Pure Fractal titled "Cycles 2" ~ Woman with clock ~ Scary Face Fractal - Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei}

Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my second mixed media project for the October Spirits challenge.