Every town has its myth-keepers. Ours is Linda DeSantis.

In this next chapter of the Artist Series, the spotlight spirals into the depths—where tentacled wisdom and fluid imagination meet. The 253 Octopus isn’t just art. It’s an emblem, a sigil, a spirit creature rising from the saltwater subconscious of Tacoma’s collective dreamscape.

Summoned from the ether by Linda of DeSantis Designs, this piece pulses with meaning. Each tendril wraps around a memory, a myth, a heartbeat of the city. It is Tacoma embodied in ink and intuition.

Linda isn’t just an artist. She’s a freelance sorceress, a conjurer of the beautiful and strange, shaping stories with brush and flame while constructing her mythical yurt on the edge of the world. Out there on the peninsula, she walks the liminal path—watching the tree line, whispering back to Bigfoot, gathering visions that find form in creations like this.

253 Octopus isn’t decoration.

It’s invocation.

It’s a mark of those who rise, not by chance, but by choice.

It’s the spirit of Tacoma, drawn from grit, for those chasing something greater.