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Canva might be one of the biggest threats to the old way of creating content.
Not because it makes everyone a designer.
Because it makes creating and publishing an idea incredibly easy.
And that changes the game.
You can go from idea → design → video → social post → campaign without a traditional creative workflow.
But here’s the part people miss:
When creation becomes easier, creativity becomes harder to fake.
The tools can give you the visuals.
They can’t decide what your audience actually needs to hear.
That’s why I see Canva as more than a design platform. It’s becoming part of the modern content workflow.
The tool is getting easier. The thinking still isn’t.
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“A Knight’s Story”
This creation was inspired by a fictional interpretation of the Nuremberg Armor from The Met’s public archive.
The original piece is a German suit of armor made in Nuremberg around 1520, constructed from steel and leather. Its distinctive fluted surfaces reflect the transition from late Gothic armor toward the fuller forms associated with the Maximilian style.
For this project, I wanted to explore the different stages of the armor’s imagined life — not simply as an object, but as something that existed within an environment, was worn, carried, marked by events, and eventually left behind as a trace of history.
The challenge was to communicate a specific feeling without explaining everything, leaving enough space for the viewer to complete the story themselves.
Really happy to take part in the Challenge using FLORA. Exploring The Met’s archive was already inspiring, but digging deeper into the histories and possible narratives surrounding individual objects made the process even more interesting.
You can explore the FLORA canvas here:
https://app.flora.ai/view/js77nwey12bfgav8ra0gcbqj2d8dqz98
Original Met reference:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24807
Great story line
What If the Pieces Could Think?
More than 100 years into the future, an ancient chess set awakens.
The pieces have become conscious beings — able to think, question, and choose. From the same original chess set, two parallel universes emerge. The pieces look the same, share the same origin, and live on the same board, yet they have been taught to see each other as enemies.
There is no human player anymore. Still, they continue fighting and destroying one another, following rules created for them centuries ago.
Until they begin to question them:
Why are we fighting each other when we all belong to the same board?
The story connects the chessboard to humanity — the identities, divisions, and rules we inherit without ever asking who created them or whether we still need them.
I used the original Met artwork as the foundation, then reimagined the world around it through FLORA: from historical artifact → awakening → parallel universes → conflict → consciousness.
Artwork: Chess Set, ca. 1800, Made in India, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object No. 46.67.74a–gg. Public Domain / Open Access.
Read your story line and I felt what it was meant to make one feel.
"Who exactly made the rules and laws we follow?? without us questioning and why was it made???