Beauty In the Eye Of the Mind | A Mixed Media Project

The concept of beauty. To mine own eyes hold true.

Beauty is defined as:

¹ "the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit."

But what if your eyes are conditioned to only accept certain images our minds tell us is "beautiful". Beauty in society is unrealistic expectations of what a person is urged to attain. The unhealthiness of the standard is widely known. Yet, many pursue it as though their lives depended upon it.

The concept of beauty has been defined as that quality of a think that is pleasing, and the pleasure is totally subjective. The object or person is subject to the another person's or a group of people's perception.

This perception is based, in part, on heritage, learned concepts or conditioning.

As Confucius said, "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." ²

For my current mixed media art project, I wanted to focus on the concept of beauty and how it is determined. The star of my project is a pure fractal I titled "Shark Fish" created in Apophysis 7X, an advanced version of the fractal rendering program.

I love how this image reflects the varying degree of the same colors. The perfect background shape to surround and highlight the other images placed inside for the project.

To complete the use of my design, I locate two other pure fractals, "Veil-2" and "Eye of the Swirl" I felt would provide shade and fill in the inside portion of the primary fractals. The first fractal acted as a veil in the background.

My next thought was to incorporate an all-seeing eye. The eye represents the organ primarily used to detect the beauty in all things.

I utilized two different stable diffusion programs to design variations of an eyelid and pupil. I wanted to see how the programs handled the same description.

Separate, both images are dramatic. Together, they formed the perfect outer and inner layer of the eye.

Below are my steps:

To blend all images, I uploaded them into Canva, my design program. I take advantage of its upgraded features in my Pro Annual Membership Subscription. That way, I can utilized tools such as colorizing, background removal, sizing, and filters.

From left to right, below are my steps in blending the images:

After resizing and positioning all the images, below is my completed project:

Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my fractal and generative art project.