Zoetica Ebb is creating Art
☽ Intergalactic Naturalist ☾ Moscow-born artist photographer and writer, dedicated to proving that life is as beautiful as we make it.
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Milestone Goals
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Alien Botany book becomes real
The story, the research, the illustrations, the fancy binding... I'm getting butterflies just thinking about it.
3D Printer
Imagine walking through a glowing Alien Botany garden! This has been a dream of mine for over two years, but so far it's been out of reach.
About
Right now, I'm based in Northern California, where I'm working on Alien Botany — a multimedia art series dedicated to beastly flora and antique botanical illustration. Alien Botany is series of hyper-detailed concept drawings, fine art prints, and a clothing line, with the long-term goal of a coffee table book. I'm passionate about creating, photo-expeditions, curating, and inspiring others to make their own adventures. I love the smell of wet leaves, fresh ink, and engine oil.
My other projects are as follows:
The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing is a video travel guide series giving insight into the skyrocketing alternative art, fashion, music, and nightlife culture in Beijing. On this project, I function as curator, co-director and host. The initial phase of The Secret Guide was funded through Kickstarter. This was my second Kickstarter effort.
I founded and raised over $8,000 for D4RT – a project aiming to bring art classes and supplies to a developing village in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, where I taught an introductory kids’ art workshop and, together with village locals, painted a mural on the school wall. I’d like to do this again sometime.
GHST RDR is my first foray into fashion design in collaboration with Adriana Fulop of Toronto label, Plastik Wrap. GHST RDR is a mini-collection consisting of an architectural, retro-futuristic jacket-and-skirt combo, inspired by Victorian riding fashion and anime robots.
I was part of Coilhouse – a magazine and blog I co-founded, billed as “a love letter to alternative culture”. During my time with Coilhouse, I functioned as co-editor, curator, merchandise designer, writer and illustrator, interviewing Clive Barker and Grant Morrison among many other luminaries.
Before it was discontinued, I worked as a culture writer and photographer for RedBull’s Chinashop Magazine, specializing in urban exploration and art coverage. I visited independent businesses and the studios of fellow artists and fashion designers, documenting creative spaces and conducting interviews.
My other projects are as follows:
The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing is a video travel guide series giving insight into the skyrocketing alternative art, fashion, music, and nightlife culture in Beijing. On this project, I function as curator, co-director and host. The initial phase of The Secret Guide was funded through Kickstarter. This was my second Kickstarter effort.
I founded and raised over $8,000 for D4RT – a project aiming to bring art classes and supplies to a developing village in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, where I taught an introductory kids’ art workshop and, together with village locals, painted a mural on the school wall. I’d like to do this again sometime.
GHST RDR is my first foray into fashion design in collaboration with Adriana Fulop of Toronto label, Plastik Wrap. GHST RDR is a mini-collection consisting of an architectural, retro-futuristic jacket-and-skirt combo, inspired by Victorian riding fashion and anime robots.
I was part of Coilhouse – a magazine and blog I co-founded, billed as “a love letter to alternative culture”. During my time with Coilhouse, I functioned as co-editor, curator, merchandise designer, writer and illustrator, interviewing Clive Barker and Grant Morrison among many other luminaries.
Before it was discontinued, I worked as a culture writer and photographer for RedBull’s Chinashop Magazine, specializing in urban exploration and art coverage. I visited independent businesses and the studios of fellow artists and fashion designers, documenting creative spaces and conducting interviews.
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
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2174 AD. Five years ago, a shipwrecked cosmonaut from the exploratory mission Novy Mir documented the flora of an unknown planet in quadrant NQ3 while waiting for a rescue mission. Her notes and sketches were found inside a charred capsule adrift in the Arctic Ocean. The scientific community, awed by what she discovered, has been attempting to decode her jumbled words and complex diagrams ever since.
The cosmonaut’s specimen-documentation took on many forms. From sketches to sculpture, she used whatever materials had survived the crash. Reconstruction is ongoing in laboratories worldwide.
Alien Botany is an ongoing concept series of hyper-detailed drawings, fine art prints, and capsule fashion collections, with the long-term goal of a coffee table book and an exhibition featuring large 3D models in an Alien Botany garden. I have all these ideas bubbling in my imagination and finally, after years of spreading myself too thin between too many projects (as the hulking bio column on the left demonstrates), I have the time to devote to an expansive art project.
I also have a long-running blog and portfolio site, Biorequiem.com. This is where, in addition to my artwork, I share my photography, writing, style, and crunchy tidbits of culture. I used to be a more frequent blogger, but, as with my artwork, time constraints have been keeping me from making this the lively port of information and inspiration it could be. I’d love to blog regularly, but continue to run into the same dilemma – finite time. I run out of it because I freelance to make money – a distraction which I would like to reduce.
Why monthly? Because I work in different mediums and platforms, some projects take hours, others months to produce, so per-work pledges wouldn’t make sense. Monthly contributions will facilitate the stability necessary for me to focus on making more art from the star-cast summits of my soul, and on igniting the blog engine once again.
The thing about Patreon I respond to the most (besides the obvious benefit of getting to do what I love) is the idea of cultivating a circle of allies-in-vision. It's part old-school patronage we can actually afford and part art coven, with a secret blog, special stuff, tangible snail mail and occasional face time. It's mutual motivation and encouragement and a moonlit harbor in the murky fog of creative seclusion. I'm delighted by all of it and hope you’ll join me on this adventure!
The cosmonaut’s specimen-documentation took on many forms. From sketches to sculpture, she used whatever materials had survived the crash. Reconstruction is ongoing in laboratories worldwide.
Alien Botany is an ongoing concept series of hyper-detailed drawings, fine art prints, and capsule fashion collections, with the long-term goal of a coffee table book and an exhibition featuring large 3D models in an Alien Botany garden. I have all these ideas bubbling in my imagination and finally, after years of spreading myself too thin between too many projects (as the hulking bio column on the left demonstrates), I have the time to devote to an expansive art project.
I also have a long-running blog and portfolio site, Biorequiem.com. This is where, in addition to my artwork, I share my photography, writing, style, and crunchy tidbits of culture. I used to be a more frequent blogger, but, as with my artwork, time constraints have been keeping me from making this the lively port of information and inspiration it could be. I’d love to blog regularly, but continue to run into the same dilemma – finite time. I run out of it because I freelance to make money – a distraction which I would like to reduce.
Why monthly? Because I work in different mediums and platforms, some projects take hours, others months to produce, so per-work pledges wouldn’t make sense. Monthly contributions will facilitate the stability necessary for me to focus on making more art from the star-cast summits of my soul, and on igniting the blog engine once again.
The thing about Patreon I respond to the most (besides the obvious benefit of getting to do what I love) is the idea of cultivating a circle of allies-in-vision. It's part old-school patronage we can actually afford and part art coven, with a secret blog, special stuff, tangible snail mail and occasional face time. It's mutual motivation and encouragement and a moonlit harbor in the murky fog of creative seclusion. I'm delighted by all of it and hope you’ll join me on this adventure!
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