I am enjoying with Midjourney AI mixed with my Photoshop abilities to create photos for this weblog and social media. That is my newest piece based mostly on the textual content immediate “a baby finds a secret backyard, Ukrainian folks artwork type.” I generally use Ukrainian folks artwork as a method as a result of my grandparents got here from the Ukraine. I’ve a passion for the colourful, full of life, photos I get again.
What’s fascinating to me is that this specific picture doesn’t appear like a baby discovering a secret backyard. Apart from the clothes and blond hair, it seems to be like me and the way I spent my time within the woods close to the home the place I grew up in New England. I used to spend hours choosing leaves and berries, mashing them up, and pretending to make therapeutic potions. I believe I obtained the concept from what I realized at school concerning the Wampanoag Indians who as soon as lived in these woods. I bear in mind LOVING what I heard about how they lived—it made a lot extra sense to me than the world I used to be introduced up in. I made a beeline for the woods day by day after faculty and stayed there till nightfall after I was anticipated residence.
Now I am in my 60’s and I nonetheless “play” at making therapeutic potions (solely now I really know how you can do it). It is fascinating to me that of all of the make-believe video games I performed after I was a baby, this was the one which caught.