"Seeking Refuge" High Quality Fine Art Print

Archival digital edition of original graphite drawing by Bohie Palecek printed locally on Epson Cold Pressed White oversized paper stock by fine art printer, Macquarie Editions.

Artists Statement:

”Seeking Refuge” responds to the dwindling habitat of Australia’s native and endangered Mountain Pygmy-possum. The Mountain Pygmy-possum is remarkable in that it was first described from a Pleistocene fossil by Robert Broom in 1896. At the time it was thought to be extinct.

In 1966 a living specimen was discovered in a Ski Club Lodge on Mount Hotham in Victoria. With evidence of only one living animal in existence, the Guinness Book of Records of 1967 recorded the Mountain Pygmy-possum as the rarest animal on Earth.

This artwork features a VB beer can I found near this endangered species’ allocated habitat, located within the Perisher Ski Resort in the Kosciusko National Park in NSW where I spent my winter snowboarding. I featured this iconic Australian brand as a symbol for the human hand, powerful enough to wipe out or nurture this incredible small animal back to health, with the Pygmy-possum journeying through the wilderness “seeking refuge”.