Laurie says:

I’ve always been fascinated by the octopus. They are, as I and a number of scientists see it, intelligent in a very (not surprisingly) alien way.

My daughter Shayin sent me this image of a Samurai octopus helmet from a museum in Japan and that got me started on this post.

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Samurai helmet with octopus – 18th century Japan Stibbert Museum Florence, Italy

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I’ve made a number of octopus designs over the years, mostly in sterling. This is one of the most recent ones.

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And lastly the Diver and Two Octopi,.. is a woodblock-printed design by the Japanese artist Hokusai. It is included in Kinoe no Komatsu (‘Young Pines’), a three-volume book of shunga erotica first published in 1814,

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I usually have a lot more to say when I post. But, for me, this post was about the images.

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