OTHER WORLDS
Zoë Linn Anderson is an artist and pattern designer, creating artwork for fabric, apparel, and home decor. Some of her work does not easily fit in common categories: the Lascaux cave paintings in France, images from a book about plant cells, the baby galaxy, crows, worms, darker folktales, and the imagination. These are called Other World patterns. I’m happy to create collections from any of these images.
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Crows DAY, 2023 We befriended a family of crows during the pandemic. They visited daily for peanuts. Various murders of crows live in our neighborhood and their cacophony is always awe inspiring.
Birdhouses, 2024 We have never been successful in luring a bird to make their home in our bird house that I know of, but I still like having it there.
Baba Yaga, 2022 Inspired by my ancestry and Eastern European folklore, Baba Yaga has always intrigued me. Flying in a mortar, wielding a pestle, a house perched on chicken feet. Friend or Foe? Your interpretation.
Plankton, 2023 It was fun to work on these little tiny organisms that live in the sea. I'm liking how these look galactic, connecting the microscopic to the infinite, the skies to the oceans.
Cephalopod Pattern, 2023 Octopus, starfish, coral and krill! This pattern was designed with great respect for our oceans and all the incredible life that live in it.
Galaxy, 2022 So stunning were the photos of the "baby stars" that were shared, I just had to create a pattern. This started out as a watercolor painting and ended up traced and colored in Illustrator.
Lascaux Pattern, 2022 Inspired by the Lascaux Cave Paintings, I first did these drawings for a screenprint I was working on with the theme of Time Travel. I ended up scanning the drawings and bringing onto the computer so i could make a repeating pattern.
Plant Cells, 2017 This pattern was derived from a watercolor painting I made from magnified plant cells. It has been very popular on my line of home textiles.
Worms, 2022 I am embarrassed to say I have an aversion to worms. There were so many earthworms in our muddy yard when I was growing up. These days I understand the important role they play. Here is a pattern dedicated to the worm, burrowing into or out of holes in soil, doing their work of making life more rich for all of us.