The Space Squid is one of three symbol paintings that all happened very quickly within the spate of two days. I'm not giving the set up away; suffice to say it had really nothing to do with space squids.
And in the "swan" orientation, it's quite a different story ...
Space Squid
(Vector Version)

As is usual with symbol paintings, if you change the orientation, you change the story.
Space Squid - Swan Orientation

Turn it through 90' again and we have ...

... and one more time for the fourth orientation ...

Space Squid - Vector Drawing of original symbol painting in acrylics on canvas (c) StarFields 2010.
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