"Drawing, for me, is a form of meditation. My animations become infinite loops of memory I can return to: ginkgo leaves from Osaka, a moth I noticed on a walk or bubbles in my sparkling water. These small square viewfinders into everyday moments of awe and wonder are often drawn from nature - a constant subject in the artist's work and the site for her biggest inspirations."
"My influences range from Bruno Munari's Supplement to the Italian Dictionary to Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies - especially the way sequences of still frames come together to create an understanding of movement. Didactic images, step-by-step instructions, and early studies of motion, like zoopraxiscopes, inform the material qualities of her loops with bleeding inky colours and overlapping marks and lines."
Orysia Zabeida develops animations through a methodical process, drawing exclusively in square formats organized into seven-column grids within Procreate. Each animation is created frame-by-frame and archived on her website as simultaneous motion cycles. Her approach follows small systems and rules enabling infinite variations. Drawing serves as meditation and close observation, allowing her to capture and preserve fleeting moments from nature—ginkgo leaves, moths, bubbles—as infinite loops of memory. Her visual style intentionally rejects perfection through bleeding inks, overlapping marks, and organic lines. Despite this fluid aesthetic, she draws inspiration from systematic sources including didactic images, step-by-step instructions, zoopraxiscopes, Bruno Munari's work, and Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies, which inform her understanding of movement through sequential frames.
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