octopus

An icon/illustration project I've been working on for some writing i'm doing. 🐙This tee of my OCTOPUS🐙 is up on @cottonbureau for preorder.

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I’ve been fascinated with the octopus for a while now - especially after reading Sy Montgomery’s book. It’s a metaphor for me — of life and faith and how it isn’t contained in any neat compartment or act of control. "Here is an animal with venom like a snake, a beak like a parrot, and ink like an old-fashioned pen. It can weigh as much as a man and stretch as long as a car, yet it can pour its baggy, boneless body through an opening the size of an orange. It can change color and shape. It can taste with its skin. Most fascinating of all, I have read that octopuses are smart." – Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus