Tasmanian Devil

The image combines the representation of the native Australian animal the Tasmanian Devil as a base relief built up on a canvas using a cardboard and a paper both to build up the form and as a ready made pallet of tones textures patterns and gradation to create the image and  ferocious  stocky muscular little black fur character  .Known for its loud and disturbing screech, keen sense of smell, ferocity feeding. The Tasmanian devil's large head and neck allow it to generate among the strongest bites per mass of any predatory land mammal.The image seeks to portray its larger than life spirit energy and force despite its size its solitary nature and its tenaciousness  in recent years the animal was almost threatened with extinction with the devil facial tumour disease . This area of the face is played upon with fleshy almost bloody pinks and purples to reflect the tumours yet also adopting  florals and decorative patterning as glimmer of  hope progress in research into the disease  in restoring numbers as devils  being shipped out to zoos around the world since  2013 to increase numbers.As the little devil looks at us with a side-ward glance standing its ground yet almost ready at the sent to prey to turn in a tail spin in pursuit of his prey .Though afflicted by disease brought on by humans encroachment  on there habitat remnant packaging from modern  consumerism  creating the shape and colour and form of the devil at once a small cute fur-ball of fervent energy with a  ferocious bite . It is at once a plea to ward a more ecologically sustainable future and and a re - appropriation of the design elements that are used as means to seduce and entice us toward certain products in our consumer society to consider the environmental damage it causes.