"I remember collecting cicada shells in the morning after the cicadas came out. Watching the sun imprint the shells onto the paper was an amazing process to see." —Clement
"We have a tree in our backyard that cicadas love. We gathered their shells and saved them. A while later we made cyanotypes with the shells." —Peter
"Every morning, dozens of cicadas would crawl up our tree and out of their shells. We collected their empty exoskeletons and made cyanotype prints out of them." —Ruth
the work
