Change Is Welcomed | LET'S MAKE A COLLAGE: ROUND #150 (Complimentary)

Let's Make a Collage ("LMAC") has reached a new milestone this week with its Round #150. That's to be celebrated. I'm happy to continue my participation with a nice landscape image to work with in creating my collages with a theme I titled "Change is Welcomed".

To create the scene, I began with the photograph provided by @shaka in his contest post: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 150 - ✨149 HIVE in the Prize Pool!

^{Image used with permission of contest owner for contest}

COLLAGE #1: Metamorphosis

For my first collage, the premise that change is inevitable has been long recognized and celebrated as necessary. Nothing remains stagnant. Either you embrace it or be swept up in the turmoil that follows resistance.

Individuals who welcome change in their lives look forward to a passage. Old things are left behind and passed away. It can be just a change in attitude or a way or looking at a situation that encompasses a part of your life.

For some, change may mean a renewal. Peeling back layers or shedding the old person and embracing the new, inner self. In my youth, I was resistant to any type of change in my life.

As a senior citizen, I've come to realize it will happen no matter how I feel or what I do about it. I firmly believe that there is a season for all things. Passing from one stage in life to another is growth as I see it. Not only do you age, but also you may gain wisdom.

COLLAGE #2: A Change of Solitude

For my second collage, the theme is "friends and family are welcome". After living in isolation, it's nice to renew friendships and invite others into your life.

One can become complacent in a particular way of life. The opportunity to learn and share information by inviting others into your life may result in a positive shift of one's perspective.

Social interaction is key to one's well being. I'm not meaning to say that one should live constantly in others' presence outside one's immediate family circle. Occasionally it's good to interact.

I wanted to portray a lonely individual who lived in a secluded area. She had family, but didn't interact with them. She had closed herself off from all human contest. Likewise, her family and friends didn't want to interact with her. It may have been her lifestyle of living among enchanted creatures whom she understood.

Growing increasingly lonely for human companionship, one day she decided to change her lifestyle. She decided to host a party for relatives and friends. First, she constructed a WELCOME sign. Then she decorated her tree house with the assistance of her forest friends. Next, she invited them, and they were delighted, to meet her family.

In the end, human family and friends decided she wasn't so different after all. Communication was all that was required. Her young nieces and nephews enjoyed themselves as they explored the tree house and beyond. They came to learn of the various mushrooms she grew in her greenhouse, wonders of the forest, and all its inhabitants thanks to their unusual aunt.

They even left with her photos from the outside world. She framed them and decorated the outside of her tree house so that she could see her family whenever she wished. The annual forest visit was placed on their calendar to see what was new in her world.