In Stan Klamer's work the topographic map becomes a metaphor for reality in which the artist records and documents his own world. His most recent work often features circles, large and small, which together form a constellation in which boats, objects, people and animals are incorporated. The set of circles can also be interpreted as a celestial map or cosmology in which the spiritual and otherworldly are given a place.
Octogone is one of the works that ventures out into the spiritual realm, combining details from medieval and persian miniatures, zodiac signs, birds, islands, encrypted texts and pictograms.