Faculty of Design
Illustration
David Zhixuan Zhang
Parasitoid Wasp
Illustration
2023
Parasitoid wasps lay eggs in live prey and brainwash them using their venom to create what is essentially the living dead that foster and protect their children. This illustration depicts the wasp as a necromancer raising an army of zombies to do her bidding.
Work by
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]
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