- Zoetica Ebb is a multimedia artist whose award-winning Alien Botany(TM) series explores the human capacity for adaptation through the eyes of a lifelong wanderer. In her work, she challenges ideas of what is natural and looks to the potential of our genetic alphabet in an imagined future among the stars.
Ebb's art book, Chimeric Herbarium, contains the complete Alien Botany art archive and a record of the new forms these plants have taken in the years since this infectious collection was discovered on Earth. Her first animated short, Galea Displodo Interaction (2024), invites you to experience a metamorphosis of perception and lose yourself in the strange world of exoplanetary mycelium. How will these xenofungal entities treat an unexpected guest?
Zoetica Ebb is the co-founder of Coilhouse Magazine, published in print with international distribution and online from 2007 to 2011 with the tagline, "a love letter to alternative culture, in an era where alternative culture no longer exists." Coilhouse is lauded for its discerning coverage of art, music, fashion, film, technology and literature. The interviews and features in Coilhouse include Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Lissitzky, Samuel R. Delany, Blixa Bargeld, Terry Gilliam, Grant Morrison, DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh, Richard Elfman, Travis Louie, Mondo 2000's R.U. Sirius, Kathleen Hanna, Lothar Schreyer, Marina Bychkova, Ron Moore, Sonny Vincent, Xeni Jardin, and Clive Barker.
Ebb co-created The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing - a travel series offering insight into the alternative art, fashion, music, and nightlife culture in Beijing. She's the host and executive producer of features on clandestine places alongside intimate conversations with cultural luminaries including Ren Hang, Vega Wang, and Chen Man.
Ebb is the founder of D4RT- a crowd-funded project that brought art classes and supplies to the children of a remote developing village in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, where Zoetica taught a three-day art workshop and painted a mural on the village school wall.
Zoetica Ebb has been featured in Dazed, LA Weekly, G4TV, Gizmodo, Hyperallergic and many others. Years of migration have led her to embrace alienation as a valuable chosen state; her work speaks to our boundless capacity for transformation and survival in the face of impossible odds.
In addition to continuing to develop Alien Botany(TM), Zoetica Ebb has launched several capsule fashion collections featuring these illustrations. She lives in London.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ashley Miller
- SpouseGasper Azman(January 4, 2014 - present)
- RelativesNikolai Shakhmayev(Grandparent)
- To me, great personal style begins with a strong sense of identity. Self-awareness and understanding are, in my opinion, crucial aspects of human development, the foundation stones of living well. I believe my style writing resonates with readers because I encourage them to actively seek out their true selves and pursue life without being slaves to brands, conventions, or anything else, for that matter. Also, people generally seem to enjoy pictures of cute, adventurous outfits.
- Russia has an incredibly rich, albeit occasionally selective, art history. When I was growing up in Moscow, my parents took me to museums, to puppet shows and to plays. Our apartment overflowed with modern and classic art books*, which I devoured cover to cover every chance I got. Despite the bleak economic times and my family's very average income, they truly valued the arts and I will always be grateful for their efforts to keep me cultured. By seven, I was in love with Modigilani, Dix, Dali, Kustodiev, Leonardo, and so many more. You could say I was artistically-promiscuous at a very young age.
- The idea of other worlds and the infinite potential of the universe were big themes for me growing up. My grandfather, my favorite male role model, was a physicist. A true scientist, he, seeing my fascination with all things fantastical and wanting to gently shift me away from spirituality, taught me about space, rockets, nebulae and black holes. I decided I wanted to be a cosmonaut. Around the same time, Russia became obsessed with UFOs and extraterrestrials, which played right into my already-rampant escapism.
- I'll be truly happy only when I'm finally able to paint and write simultaneously, while looking out at my parked rocket from the balcony of my Martian tower.
- The creative process, while absolutely vital to my existence, is much more of a compulsion than a release. With painting I'm always struggling to perfect and evolve. I'm never happy when I'm finished with a piece and I never feel like I fully explained what I saw in my mind. Photography is relaxing because the lens is an extension of my eyes, not my brain. It's not about conveying what's inside but about falling in love with the outside world. And love is never, ever cathartic. Except in bed.
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