Grazing Choreographies – Drawing Centre Diepenheim – English

In Grazing Choreographies, Esther and Ivar draw the patterns of grazing cows. During their residency at the Drawing Centre Diepenheim in 2024, they drew in large format on five farms, four drawings per farm.

On this page you will find:
– the 20 drawings and details of the drawings
– Esther and Ivar’s conversations about the drawings, English subtitled (not completed for all drawings yet)
– a stop-motion video of each drawing session.
Material: Watercolour pencil on Hahnemühle 300 g watercolour paper, water (sprayed).
Dimensions: 125 x ± 155 cm (lxh)

Find the Dutch version of this page here

See also the blog on our residency in Diepenheim (in English).

Artistic Motivation

Our work focuses on movement and landscape and how mobility shapes the landscape. Just over twenty years ago, this began with innovative artistic experiments with location technology (particularly GPS) as a means of recording movement. This often resulted in digital prints or animations of traveled routes. We saw this as a ‘photography of movement’. Within this experimental practice, we have looked for opportunities to use technology as a tool to provide a representation of the landscape as it emerges from movement. Our most recent move has been to create drawings that, while stemming entirely from those experiments with technology, are completely free of the technology itself in their execution.
With Grazing Choreographies, we now draw directly, trusting our human powers of observation, the movements we would have previously captured with GPS.