Artwork, Furries, and Tattoos

Thylacines and the Embodiment of Legendry

The following post is a thread from my M.A. thesis on thylacine legend cycles and artwork. When the project started growing and there were questions left unanswered but did not fit in the overall argument of the project, I found a way to incorporate these topics in smaller ways through a lens of “critical connections” between major theoretical subjects that surfaced for me throughout my research but were not a central aspect of my overall argument. The particular framework here is embodiment, and represents my thinking about the embodiment of thylacine legends through different artistic representations that involve the body (tattoos, costumes, and furries). Read on to take a closer look at the embodiment of thylacine legends!

NOTE: this passage can also be found (with less photos and in it’s originally published form) within my M/A. thesis, which can be downloaded for free through this link (starting on page 99).