Cream-colored octopus tentacles coil and writhe across a deep black ground, their surfaces rendered with intricate circular suction cups that catch the light. The composition fills the entire frame with sinuous, intertwining arms in a bold linocut or woodblock style that evokes classic natural history illustration. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.