Collections

Art for the quiet hours

Zoryia's backgrounds come in collections. Each scene keeps its ornament at the edges and leaves the middle calm, so the music and the visualizer have room.

Common Thread

Inspired by Slavic folk art

Every scene is inspired by a living craft tradition of the Slavic peoples, credited to its place and community. Scenes are grouped by motif and mood, never by nation. Each carries at least two sources you can check.

A scene from Common Thread with painted birds and flowers in the corners of a dark ground — Petrykivka Birds

A scene from Common Thread with painted horses and birds on warm wood — Mezen Horses and Birds

A scene from Common Thread with blue tulips on plum linen — Kashubian Tulips

A scene from Common Thread with a border of red embroidered flowers — Slovácko Collars

A scene from Common Thread with a carved wooden rosette — Tatra Rosette

A scene from Common Thread with painted panels of village life — Beehive Panels

How we make it

Inspired by, never copied. Each scene is our own artwork, inspired by a craft tradition. It does not reproduce a museum piece or claim to document a tradition.
Every scene has a reference card naming the tradition, its place and community, with at least two sources you can check.
Grouped by motif and mood, never by nation. Its motifs are Sun and Star, Tree of Life, Animals, Garden, Lace and Needle, Weave and Geometry, Painted, and Paper and Straw.
No borrowed images. The art is made by us, from our own drawings, photographs and descriptions, or commissioned. No stock photograph is ever used as a source.

See all the scenes, with their sources

Under review. Each scene's page shows its reference card and sources. The cards have passed our source checks and the owner's review; a final check of their wording is still to come.

Know one of these traditions well and see something we got wrong? Please tell us at hello@zoryia.com. We answer every report, and we correct, explain or credit as the case needs.

Aura Drift

Abstract color fields

Soft fields of color that drift from vivid to calm, an original design made for Zoryia. It is drawn from no tradition, so it has no sources to cite.

Aura Drift: a wave of deep blue edged with amber light — Nautical

Aura Drift: a plume of red and orange fading into teal — Sunset

Aura Drift: turquoise, violet and orange smoke — Vaporwave

Aura Drift: two soft arches of lavender — Lavender

Aura Drift: emerald and gold drifting together — Emerald Velvet

Aura Drift: a rainbow curve of violet, red and orange — Wonder

Premium collections

More collections, on any theme, will be streamed to your TV with Premium. They are in preparation. See Premium