If I had an animal that I felt represented me...

If I had an animal that I felt represented me, personally, or was my emblem, it would be a rabbit. I think a hare, to be more specific. Not the soft, cuddly little domesticated babes that steal things from your garden or cuddle with you. I think everyone loves those. But when I think about my personal animal representative it is not that kind of Lagomorph. No, the wild and wirey hare is what I love the most. 

Hares have a deep folklore background. They've been associated with fertility, moon cycles, magic, disaster, and the Otherworld (there is some thought in folklore that rabbits had the ability to go underground to communicate with the spirit world). 

I think that maybe it was with ​Watership Down that I learned to love rabbits? But maybe that isn't quite true. My mother tells a story about visiting my paternal grandmother during Easter time. We'd gone to a store and I was rolled past an end cap of rabbits and grabbed one - he became my lovie and confidant. 

I love that Texas (and other parts of the United States) has its own hare: the jackrabbit. 

I've been spending some time in the afternoon doodling. Just working on colorful, silly, and almost Lisa-Frank-inspired pieces of art. This colorful jackrabbit is yesterday's doodle. My husband saw the finished product and wanted to know if I was going to offer prints of it. I think I might offer it as a series of three (with my wild agave in the mix with something else). I'd like to have them mounted together, I think that could be very cool. 

I've also decided that I like this pose enough that I'm going to make a physical drawing of a jackrabbit in this way. I think I even have the perfect canvas - recycled of course. It's been begging for a rabbit of some kind, and I started working on one and just couldn't ever seem to find what felt right. So, maybe this is the one that belongs on that canvas that's been begging for a hare.