2003.1 - OCTOPUS

I think this is one of the most impressive pieces I’ve made. How many other people have an octopus living under the piano? This piece is eight feet in diameter, and I was terrible worried that it wouldn’t fit under the piano, and that I would have to ask my husband, David, for a bigger one. This would have been awkward since I haven’t played seriously for some time. The octopus is in nine pieces, the body and eight legs. I made nine, assuming that one would fail. It didn’t, and now I have an extra that hangs out near a wall in the living room.