morsure, An engraving on steel. An octopus explores a shallow rocky seabed beneath the distant shadow of a passing diver, its arms reaching into separate channels between stones. View the animal from above at a gentle angle so that all eight arms can be followed from the central body without confusing their crossings. The diver appears only as a small, plausible silhouette in the open water high in the background, clearly separated from the octopus. Place the richest detail around the nearest suckers, a shell, and the edge of a low rock shelf. Sparse sea grass grows from sandy gaps, bending together in a mild current. Sunlight from the surface creates broad, moving patches across the seabed, leaving enough quiet sand around the animal to make its changing outline readable. The octopus should appear engaged with its immediate surroundings rather than performing for the viewer. The scene is about two forms of curiosity sharing the same water at different distances, with the small, deliberate actions of the animal carrying more importance than the human presence drifting far above it.