At the same time I was working on the octobook, I was also working on the glass jelly fish that I featured on this blog's header a couple of months ago. The Mote Aquarium, in Sarasota, maintains several tanks of different jelly species that are mesmerizing to watch.
Since I had a renegade jelly sketch from my sketches and thoughts about creating a glass version, I have included one of the sketches on the inside, back cover. It's just a quicky sketch and placed on the back cover so that it would not remain blank. It would be a good study to learn more about the relationship between the octopus and the jelly fish - who attacks who, who eats who ????????? Kind of a sociological study, just the like the work environment studies.........you know, who attacks who, who stings who, who eats who.........hmmmmmmm?????????
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| Small Man-O-War Jellyfish - Swimmers beware! |
Below, you can catch a glimpse of that second pocket page, with tags, as well.......
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| These jellies, in isolation, won't kill you, but from what I have heard, it is a VERY unpleasant interaction - one to be avoided!! |
So where is the octopus, you ask. As quickly as she frenzied into a rage and turned intense shades of burgundy, purple and ochre-gold, she turned a combination of milky beige and grayish white, and went into hiding at the bottom of the tank, behind a stack of cinder-blocks. Road rage can't hold a candle to this lady's aggression; it sure would be nice if tempers calmed as quickly on the road as this octopus demonstrated in the tank!!
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