Zettiology Photos
What is Zettiology?
“Zettiology is a term coined by Teesha Moore, describing a style of fanciful, whimsical or odd characters, paired with vibrant colors, flowing lines, intriguing text and black/white bold patterns.”
“Zettiology is a state of mind….a state in which you create art. You won’t find it in the dictionary, you won’t find it in a thesaurus. Zettiology just is.”
“Zettiology is something different to everyone. To me, Zettiology is the practice of making art just for the sake of making art….but unlike impressionism, cubism, realism, zettiology is truly free.”
“Zetti is the option to look at art as a playground, a space where I can explore colour and combine odd imagery.”
“zettiology is just like Fluxus…that free “art can be anything and anything can be art” mentality.”
“Basically, zettiology is a nothing more then a catch phrase some of us have adopted to depict the limitlessness of our art.”
“A bit of history of Zetti, back in the day Tracy and Teesha Moore were very involved in Artistamps (postage like stamps, little works of art shaped like postage stamps). This particular group created complete worlds based on their “theme” Tracy created a world of “zetti” weird weird creatures. Teesha really loved his world, i read i think it was in her magazine that she loved his world better than her own world. Ultimately she adopted “Zetti” and the term stuck “zettiology” so actually “zettiology” can mean whatever you want it to mean.”
“To me Zetti means a glorious wild uninhabited garden. with wild coloured flowers, blue roses (which don’t truly exist). To another person it might mean striped legs and pointy hats and wings.”
“Zetti is another land that exists only in your mind.”
“The world of mystery of odd people, places and things.”
“To me, Zetti looks like collage/animations from the old Monty Python show. Strange…surreal…intriguingly bizarre.”
“I like to think of it along these lines: Creating images with no rules, a lot of imagination, an odd sense of humor, lots of layers of different elements (text, colors, visual and/or tactile textures), combining unusual and unrelated elements into a single image.”
The above definitions and interpretations were researched and summarized by Cindy/Chip on the Craft Happy Website, “A ‘Zetti’ Challenge, …just for fun and laughter!” October, 2007.
