Thylacines roam the mindscape

Is there such a thing as a collective subconscious? If so, it is little wonder that the Tasmanian mind is widely populated by the still-elusive thylacine.

Du Fresnes’ ship Mascaria is observed by natives of Maria Bay, Tasmania, in 1772
In the hills
Xmas in Tasmania
A thylacine in Brett and Wendy’s garden
Thylacines take Paris
Working thylacine
Thylacine full forward
Thylacine at the sheepdog trials
Opera thylacines with falling object

Oneirothylacinery

They visit Mr Nold each night, always in a different guise. Are they trying to tell him something about the future they might have seen had we not made them vanish from the physical landscape of Tasmania? How deep is the meaning of dreams? Feel free to work it out for yourself.

Thylacine Brothel
Tasmanian pests
Sumo Wrestler Thylacine
Pregnant Thylacine
Ceramic Thylacine Wall Ornaments
Miracle near Oatlands
Maternal Comfort
Thylacine Cub Caught in a Trap
Strange Encounter…

Thylacine Haunting

Mr Nold’s nocturnal dreamscape is perpetually populated by performative thylacines — it almost amounts to a quasi-supernatural manifestation. In what forms will these elusive marsupial phantasms next emerge?

Lost Dog
Argument near Bothwell
Sunday Afternoon
Saleyard
Branded Thylacine
Tame Thylacine
Guide Thylacine
Baying
Thylacine Troubador

Thylacines at large

Mr Nold’s inner world teems with Thylacines. Some are fleeting forest shadows; others are paradoxical visions; all have the underlying Tasmanian wish that they haven’t entirely vanished from the island’s wild and enigmatic landscape — and many believe they really do linger in remote and inaccessible places.

Thylacine Cat Burglar
A Fleeting Sighting
Thylacines at Twilight
Tasmania — Garden of Eden
Interspecies Confrontation near Ulverstone
Thylacines Exploited

Couldabeen Thylacines?

More visions of thylacines float through Lindsay Arnold’s imagined Tasmania where the elusive marsupial was adopted by the colonists, becoming a many-talented and often mythical beast. Here more thylacines emerge from the fog of the past in guises possibly probable and patently not.

After the match
Thylacine in a rocky place
Circus Work
Campsite
Angel Thylacine near Maralinga
Superthylacine