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David Zhixuan Zhang

Skeleton Shrimp

Illustration
2023
The skeleton shrimp is an aquatic arthropod that is often compared to praying mantises due to their similar hunting techniques of stealth and ambush. This illustration depicts the creature as a monster lurking in the woods, similar to those in camping horror stories.

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Skeleton Shrimp
Skeleton Shrimp

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David Zhixuan Zhang aka. VIATHINE

“"The Slaughtering Swarm" is a project that explores a variety of arthropods and the unusual survival mechanisms they employ to kill, drawing comparisons between these actions to human behaviours and...” [More]