they’ve always said, when you feel a random shiver, that a rabbit has run across your future grave

A Phantom in the Wilderness - The Thylacine

This is my next artwork about the recently extinct animals. One of the most famous examples is without a doubt the thylacine. The last known thylacine died 1936 in the zoo of Hobart on Tasmania. There were later claims that its name was Benjamin, but the former zookeeper told that this individual had no name. The last known wild thylacine was shot at the start of the 20th century. 

For a long time thylacines were considered a pest that was said to have preyed on sheep. Later examinations on the jaws of thylacines came to the conclusion that their jaws were to weak for killing sheeps and most kills of sheep are now blamed on feral dogs. But this was learned too late for the thylacine. Maybe.

Because there are still sightings of supposed thylacines in Tasmania and even Australia where the thylacine is said to have gone extinct 3,000 years ago. A good bunch of people believe or rather hope that maybe somewhere in the wilderness of Tasmania some thylacines may have made it.

That’s why I consider the thylacine as a creature between life and death and some sort of forest-spirit that may hide in the wilderness.

You can get prints of this artwork on my shops on Redbubble and Society6