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Illustration

David Zhixuan Zhang

Pram Bug

Illustration
2023
Pram bugs are aquatic arthropods that hollow out salps and use their corpses as mobile nurseries for their young. This illustration depicts the creature as a neglectful mother who is unaware of her spoiled children’s dangerous behaviour.

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Pram Bug
Pram Bug

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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]