Devotional Relic - The Hispid Hare 🔴 SOLD

Acrylic, ink, fluorescent paint and gold leaf on wood, 2.5x3.5 inches. Each pieces comes with its own aged mini Certificate of Authenticity and a vegan leaf leather travel pouch to carry it with you if desired . 
The hispid hare has long been associated with liminality, instinct, and the fragile threshold between wilderness and disappearance. Rarely seen and existing quietly at the edges of tall grasslands and floodplains, it feels less like an ordinary animal and more like a ghost of vanishing ecosystems , a keeper of forgotten wild places.
In this devotional relic, the hare is elevated into the visual language of a sacred witness, honouring a species whose survival hangs delicately between presence and absence. The moon above the hare symbolises intuition, cycles, and the unseen rhythms of the natural world, yet its melting form introduces unease into the composition, suggesting instability, environmental collapse, and a world slowly losing its balance.
The surrounding stars act as fragile divine sparks scattered through darkness, representing both guidance and disappearance , small lights still visible, yet increasingly distant. The fluorescent pink aura surrounding the hare cuts through the sacred imagery like a warning signal or wound, reflecting the tension between reverence and ecological decline.
The lily blooming beside the hare symbolises purity, resilience, and fleeting beauty emerging from vulnerable ground. Together, these elements echo the precarious state of the hispid hare itself, whose populations continue to decline due to habitat destruction, burning of grasslands, human expansion, and fragmentation of the wild spaces it depends upon.
Although quiet and elusive, the hispid hare becomes in this piece a sacred guardian of endangered wilderness — a reminder that what disappears silently can still hold profound spiritual weight.