Zoeybluesky, A.K.A. Zoey, started drawing when she was 5 years old, as was the fashionable after school activity for Indonesian children in 1985. Her mother was a materials professor at a university, and her father owned a printing business. From 1985 to 1989 Zoey's family ran a private after school elementary/high school extracurricular program from their converted living room. On Monday nights a professor would come and teach English, while Sunday afternoons were drawing lessons. Both Zoey, sister EveSkylar, and their neighborhood friends would gather round the living room with small drawing tables made by Uncle Agus. The smell of oil pastel is still vivid in Zoey's memory to this day…

Today Zoey is a design monk, social entrepreneur, artist, industrial and graphic designer working for a greener future. Zoey formally studied painting, industrial design, and experimental film. Her work range from: designing a “Post-Marxist Chess Set” to personal photo essays, to moving image poetry. She is currently working on a graphic novel about an imaginary symbiotic city floating atop a rainforest canopy in a future Costa Rica, and writing an essay on “The Making of Villains,” a working title.

Zoey believes in the possibility of a new “Industrial Revolution” as suggested by architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart, of Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way We Make Things, where nature and capitalism is cyclical rather than linear. She believes the current environmental crisis is a fallacy in human psychology rather than an ability to imagine and create better solutions. She also believes as long as the environmental movement conflict with a natural and healthy human desire for comfort and beauty, it will fail. While giving up current levels of comfort is unrealistic, keeping up self destructive behaviors toward extinction of our specie is not a choice. This is where design may prove the happy medium between primal desires and human conscience. Though it seems bleak, Zoey still has faith in the imaginative, inventive, and noble qualities of the human race.

Zoey’s personal fight in the environmental cause is to contribute positive imagery to science fiction. Much in the way findings in the social sciences have proven that visualization for athletes improve their chances to score a goal, the Science Fiction genre may be the key for inspiring a new way of thinking about ecology and urban planning.