Lithium

I made this for the Elements contest hosted by

Elementals Contest (CLOSED!)Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Uranium? What's this? A CONTEST? My challenge for you is to create a stock and/or art piece depicting elementals/elements whether it be of the traditional elements or the newfangled chemistry elements. I want to see your creativity!
There are no required stocks and the contest is open to stockers, traditional artists, and digital artists.
Clarification: You can depict as many of the elements as you wish in your entry whether it be one or many. You can do the earth, water, fire, air type elementals, or elementals related to chemistry elements, or even elementals that combine both types of elements!

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For my element I chose Lithium. Lithium is often used chemically in nuclear devices and industrially as medicine to treat bipolar disorder (among other illnesses). What I attempted to depict are the highs and lows of dealing with bipolar disorder, and the tightrope you walk on when you suffer from it. Being bipolar, the really bad days can feel apocalyptic...as if a lithium fused bomb could eminently explode outside your window and things still couldn't get emotionally worse than they are at the moment. While on really good days you might feel weightless...on cloud nine. Every angle is a good one.

I hope this manipulation in some ways illustrates both sides of the illness.

Thanks for looking

[stock]
model - Mahafsoun / mahafsoun.deviantart.com/art/S…
ground - smevstock / smevstock.deviantart.com/art/w…
mountains - Arctic-Stock / arctic-stock.deviantart.com/ar…
rope - nitchwarmer /nitchwarmer.deviantart.com/art…
nuclear towers - Dracoart-Stock / dracoart-stock.deviantart.com/…
background power plant - www.cgtextures.com
midground power plant - Thy-Darkest-Hour / thy-darkest-hour.deviantart.co…
dome - MissaStock / missastock.deviantart.com/art/…
fire - Null-Entity / null-entity.deviantart.com/art…
clouds - Caltha-stock / caltha-stock.deviantart.com/ar… | Savaliste / savaliste.deviantart.com/art/s…
lower sky - wolfworx / wolfworx.deviantart.com/art/Su…
upper sky - somadjinn / somadjinn.deviantart.com/art/J… / www.freestock.ca | At-Stock / at-stock.deviantart.com/art/AT…
birds - Tasastock / tasastock.deviantart.com/art/R…