A gigantic octopus has washed up on the beach of De Panne! Laure Prouvost's work was placed on the tide line of the sea in response to Beaufort21.
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Laure Prouvost
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What is 'Touching To Sea You Through Our Extremities'?
The tentacles of the octopus symbolise how Prouvost - also stranded in Belgium - had to manoeuvre between the different cultures, languages and forms of communication. The helplessness of the octopus is only an illusion: it spreads its tentacles over the sand and carefully scans its surroundings with its suction cups. With a humorous twist, Prouvost also compares the octopus to human ways of coping: the octopus holds a plug, telescope and other working instruments firmly in its tentacles, which are overgrown with mussels and breasts. In this way, the work connects to themes with which the artist has already worked, such as the underwater world and creatures that live in the sea.
Did you know that:
- every octopus is a cephalopod, but not every cephalopod is an octopus? There are several species of cephalopod, such as the octopus and the cuttlefish. Cephalopod is actually a generic name and not the name for one animal.
- an octopus has 8 tentacles, while all other cuttlefish have 10? They also have 3 hearts and each arm has about 240 suction cups.
- an octopus is always poisonous? Cephalopods are not always poisonous, but their ink can be annoying.
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octopuses literally have blue blood? This is because they have more copper in their blood than iron.
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