The Octopus is back!

 This one is shy. See, it's peeking over his shoulder here.

 Since the feedback has been so great , I decided to make more of these. 

 They are all a little bit different, as if different colors gave them entirely different personalities.

 In the past I have said  I don't like repeating myself.

I have some new insights  into not repeating myself...
 I am lucky enough that most of the things I make eventually seem to sell. This is a true blessing, and I am humbled by it. Every time someone buys something, I still freak out thinking they might not like what they got, but they do. 

And some things I made are more popular then others. Like the seasons cuffs and the wrist octopi.

That's why I made more of them.

It's great that people like my work, and if some are more successful then others, does that make me less original? It could. But in the process of making the 4th octopus and the 5th seasons cuff, I came to this conclusion: They are much alike, but in repeating yet changing the design, it becomes more me, I have more control over the complete outcome, and I am more confident of the design's success.

I still don't think I will ever just make one thing and many variations of it, but repetition has it's advantages, and one can hone one's skills in the process, because there is something to measure against.

Not that any of the other octopus or seasons cuffs were bad, but there is a personal growth involved in keeping on making them. Kind of like a mantra. 

Ultimately, whatever we do, if we put in hundreds of hours of work, we get a lot better. Sometimes it takes inventing things, sometimes it takes repeating what you invented. I am impatient and impulsive and I would have never thought I would enjoy repetition, but  I really do.

Does this make any sense?