Photo-surrealistic digital paintings of creatures found around the coasts of Thailand. Made with Procreate.

2800 x 3500 @ 72 ppi

"Cicadas, for many, represent personal change, renewal, rebirth, and transformation. Unlike a butterfly, moth or other insects that undergo complete metamorphosis, cicadas have no pupal state. They transform from one fully-functioning state (instar) to another — one viable form, in a small amount of time, changing to another. The cicada’s transformation is similar to that of human beings. If a person wants or needs to make a change in their life, they don’t enclose themselves in a pod and emerge the next spring (I suppose some might) — more likely they remain in their human form as they change. Cicadas are also the longest living insects."