Daily Drawing Diary

When The Cow Saw Me

Page 20 from the catalogue for To There & Back Again - Catching The Spaces In Between. To order your copy click here

Pen & Ink On Paper, 15cm x 21cm

RP: Meat is sold with every meal. I drove past battery-farmed cows, and it’s heartbreaking – it’s a mile long and it stinks, and you’re watching the cows in the desert, in scrubland, it’s 40 degrees outside and it’s like battery chickens but with cows, and it’s tragic…
DCR: I love the cow because aside from being a very good drawing, it’s a very tender drawing. Here is the 72 oz steak looking very tender and loving.

RP: I was trying to humanise it a bit…and that was done with spittle. There’s something quite sculptural about it, it feels like it could be from clay, a rough material. For me the cow represents hope.