![]() ![]() The redwood trunk was provided by Redwood Burl. Indeed, the massive sculpture looks impressive, measuring 14 feet long, 9 feet tall and weighing about 3,500 pounds, and it almost appears as if it’s swimming through water. The magnificence of the sculpture is visible in the incredible amount of details included, from the long tentacles to rounded suckers. In the photos below, you can see the progression of his work as the dead redwood trunk is wonderfully transformed into the colossal octopus.Īll images credit via JMS Wood Sculpture The artist Jeffrey Michael Samudosky poses with the uncarved Redwood stump The cephalopod’s tentacles curve and twist their way across areas that the artist left uncarved, including the entire back of the trunk, which gives the illusion that the octopus is on top of the tree, rather than a part of it. One of his most recent works is a Redwood snag that was transformed into a Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini), with its gigantic tentacles stretching out and revealing finer details at the ends. ![]()
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