This piece is dedicated to the unfortunate and unpredictable nature of our modern world. The roles of nature are switched. The predator can be eaten and the prey can kill, aluding to the way we humans were able to climb up the food chain, disregarding all the other species. Killing them and torturing them just for fun and self pleasure.
The bright colors represent the danger of the fish, since bright colors in nature mean the animal is extremely poisonous. It's a type of warning to its predators not to try and eat them if they don't want to die.
Moreover, the cigarette animates this animal, making it human and at the same time extremely more dangerous while it simply digests its main predators, once again proving its undeniable reality and actuality.