The words „seedling library“, the letters look like vines, ending in saplings.

ZINES

& digital art

poetry, zines and art that invite you to dream and learn from nature, with lots of bee magic 🐝

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zines

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zines ✂

Zine cover: the title “little creature, twinkling” cut out from a book, next to wrinkled wrapping paper with beautiful flowers on it and some golden stars around it.
Zine cover: An earwig illustrated with coloured pencil, it’s wings open and shimmering in different colours against an orchid-coloured background.
a watercolour of a brown hand turned upward, fingers closed over the palm. a white-tailed bumblebee sits on the third and fourth fingers. the hand is surrounded by pink, cloud-like waves. Below it: "a poem by seedlinglibrary"
A Black person with a bonnet sleeping soundly on a cloud, stars twinkling behind them and a bee happily buzzing above them.
Zinecover: “treeselves, zinetober 2023” on a collage of wood photography, bark-like, partially cut out circles on brown paper and splotches of ink.
Zine cover: “improvised kitchen by seedling library “, surrounded by hand-drawn food: a lollipop, jerk chicken with plantain and festivals, soup, cherries, mango, and a chocolate birthday cake with fruit on top.
An illustration of a black hole or the inside of a tree: „I have wished for you and now that you are here / I am afraid to let go of all the things that cage me / Because I still need them to survive / Without them I am naked and will be eaten alive"
Zine cover: „time/less (cocoon), a poem on QTIBIPoC spaces“, with cog wheels on the cover, below a sea of question marks.
Zine cover: „xylocopa violacea, a spell + playlist“ with an illustration of a black bee with lilac-blue wings.
Zine cover: „Bees or Wanna-Bees? A Pocketguide, differentiating bees from other insects“. There is a bumblebee in bright flowers on the cover.
Zine cover: „Bienenerkennungs-Hilfe von seedlinglibrary, unterscheide Bienen von anderen Insekten“. On the cover, there are a bumblebee and two honeybees drinking from a globe thistle.
Zine cover: “Hummeljahr, Bienenzine #1“. There is a bumblebee sitting on a brown hand on the cover.
Zine cover: “Bumblebee Identification Guide by seedlinglibrary, common bumblebees in Germany and the UK“. The cover has a common carder bee mid-flight on it.
Zine cover: “Solitärbienen, Bienenzine #2“. There is a solitary bee mid-flight above a flower on the cover.
Zine cover: “5 memoirs on grief - a booklist by seedling library” written in black pen on a bright red background.
Zine cover: „Hummeln Bestimmungshilfe, verbreitete Hummeln in Deutschland & UK“. It features a red-tailed bumblebee drinking from a coneflower.
Zine cover: “Things that help when I’m doing badly - for crises and everyday overwhelm” printed in stamped letters against a mint green background.
Zine cover: “film list: black lgbtqia+ cinema - fiction film” in pen on a light blue background. There are three stars - purple, gold and pink - in the middle.
Zine cover: “film list: food film - centring families of colour” in pen on a yellow background. There are three stars - blue, white and green - in the middle.
The cover of a zine. The title “film list: black vampires - in film & tv” is written in white pen on a dark blue background.

digital art

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digital art 〰️

A playlist tracklist in analogue font against a dark background of spindly tree branches, and a round QR code in the middle.
“Cypselbae by Nicky Chue” written with pen on a white background. All around the title, hand-drawn dandelion seeds float like parachutes.
The dark green, thorny skin of nettle. Hand-written on it: “when all is woven and unspun / with skin grown thick, calloused and strong / will spring uncurl our beaten hands / or will we weave again?” in cursive, once regularly and once mirrored.
“Thicket - a manifestation with labradorite by Nicky Chue” written on top of a rectangle of stone, which in turn is set against a dark background of what looks like veins of a leaf.
Nicky’s hand holding a round seed that looks like a spiky sun. In the background, there is a sea of green leaves.
The canopy of a tree, distorted to be turned in on itself. All around the tree branches is red-pink-orange evening sky. At the bottom, distorted words: “but the pull is too strong / and the sea’s in the sky / what’s a spark in the eye of the storm?”
A screenshot of a a Spotify playlist title “ubi mel ibi apes (love letters to QTIBIPOC friends), past present and future” and the beginnings of a handwritten diary entry dated Monday, 23rd July 2018.
A collage: a blue, burnt out volcano landscape. Inside one crater, two brown hands hold out their palms, with the words “endless” superimposed on them.
A brown-skinned person/creature wombed inside a tree, whose hair looks like thick roots which connect to the tree like an umbilical cord.
An illustration of a black bee with lilac-blue wings surrounded by small stars against a light yellow background. Below, a tracklist titled “xylocopa violacea, a spell + playlist”.
A pencil drawing of a Black person with braids against a blue and yellow background. Below it, the word “this started out as a self-portrait but turned into someone else. Maybe it’s you?” in handwritten cursive.
A black and white thorny / windy-looking background reads the distorted words “In the silence of my own breath, I will grow from the darkness a new skin / what is there but air and stale earth to womb me?”