David Zhixuan Zhang

Black Widow

Illustration
2023
This illustration compares a black widow spider’s process of capturing and consuming prey to medical torture and/or human experimentation as they strap down their “patients” and tend to them with a variety of sharp tools plus poison.

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Black Widow
Black Widow

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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]