Washed Printed T-Shirt

The cicada symbolizes metamorphosis and rebirth, mirroring a child’s emotional journey through the lens of its life cycle—a metaphor for the painful growth of children raised in constrained family environments. The crying child embodies loneliness, fear, and loss, while the cicada’s cry echoes both the passage of time and the fleeting fragility of childhood.

When screams lodge in throats as cocoons,
We measure freedom’s height with our spines.