Aberrant Plexus 2025 / TATTOO ARTIST Brief

Dear Artists,

The world of Alien Botany began as drawings – field notes from a lost cosmonaut’s escape pod, cataloguing hybrid organisms that fuse plant, animal, and human traits. Over the years, this archive has grown into an art series where illustration and myth converge, tracing how alien life might infiltrate human bodies and memory. Link to a press copy of my art book, Chimeric Herbarium.

Our new exhibition, Aberrant Plexus, transforms Metamorphika Studio into a contaminated laboratory at the Institute for Psychogametous Life. Here, alien mycelium has broken containment, seeking to graft itself into Earth’s collective consciousness. Drawings, sculptures, and projections render this process of cross-species entanglement.

As pollinators, you are not simply applying imagery; you are translating and mutating it through your own hand, style, and vision. Each tattoo becomes both artefact and organism, shaped by you, extending the Plexus beyond the gallery walls and into living systems. Without your interpretations, the transmission remains incomplete.

Below you’ll find works from the Alien Botany series. Each image is clickable for a larger view. Please explore their forms, patterns, and recurring motifs – not as strict instructions, but as a living vocabulary to weave into your own language. The hybrid marks you create during Aberrant Plexus will be unique to this moment, merging the archive with your artistic voice.

Thank you for bringing your craft into this evolving organism. The Plexus cannot exist without you.

With anticipation,
Zoetica Ebb