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The Natural History of Digital Habits
I found a hand-coloured illustration from Edward Donovan’s The Natural History of British Insects, Volume VIII (1799), in the Internet Archive Book Images collection on Flickr. I used this archival reference to create my custom Recraft style, Digital Natural History — 1799. My six-image series imagines small creatures using smartphones, wireless earbuds, food delivery, video calls, electric scooters, and robot vacuums. Antique botanical compositions turn modern digital habits into specimens from an impossible natural-history archive.
Hand-drawn panther illustration designed for my own merch drop.
It features a bold panther graphic on a heavy black long-sleeve tee. The front showcases a high-contrast panther head, while the sleeves feature symmetrical prints of leaping panthers. Authentic streetwear aesthetics built from the ground up.
In 1640 and 1642 Ulisse Aldrovandi published his books of serpents, dragons and monsters, solemn woodcuts of creatures he knew only from rumours, I found the Smithsonian copies on the Biodiversity Heritage Library, cropped ten of his beasts and built a Recraft Style from them.
Monstrorum Historia MMXXVI keeps his poses, his Latin captions and even his page numbers, and fills the book with the marvels we actually live with now: a sphynx cat in a sweater riding a robot vacuum, a dog pushed in a baby stroller, a bearded dragon basking on a laptop under a desk lamp, an inflatable unicorn with a fish tail.
I chained two Styles: the black-and-white generations were hand-coloured and became a second Style, like the deluxe coloured copies of the 1640s, and every plate is printed onto a real blank leaf scanned from the 1642 copy.
Each monster has an eyewitness, from Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa and Poltava. Same book, 384 years later, the monsters moved in with us.
