Sure! As long as the scope that creates the state does not subscribe to it, state can be created anywhere.

In the following example, each of the three 'things' has its own votes state:

  function drawThing(title) {
    const votes = proxy({up: 0, down: 0});
    $('h1:'+title);
    $('button:', () => votes.up++);
    $('button:', () => votes.down++);
    $(() => {
      // Do this in a new reactive scope, so changes to votes won't rerun drawThing,
      // which would reset votes.
      $(`:${votes.up} up, and ${votes.down} down`);
      // Of course, we could also call `drawVotes(votes)` instead here.
    })
  }
  
  onEach(['One', 'Two', 'Three'], drawThing);