Getting ready for the trip

Sarah Hillock will be braving the elements to fund raise for the non profit organization Eastern Edge Gallery. She will ride her bike 2700km across the continent of Europe. In tow with her will be her bike, her trailer ‘B.O.B.’, an antique wooden travel easel and a good attitude. Sarahs main interest as a painter is the Cow. By alternating between painting cows and traveling between farms she is attempting to make the plausibility of a bike-able world more realistic. Being seen inserting herself into the landscape as both a cyclist and a painter is her main ambition. This will bring visibility to the issues of transportation in tourism and putting faces to food in art. Like her contemporary Mike Flaherty said of his tour ‘Bicycle Rehabilitation Project’ “, hopefully, everybody who sees me on the road has thought a bit more about cycling.” Sarah’s hope is to be a part of the same revolution in transportation and attitude, one that respects the limits of our planets resources, as well as our own physical limits. Similar to how Cheryl Rondeau explores the physical limitations of the body in her “Art Ride 2007” by riding from Biennale to Biennale. Hillock plan’s to integrate art and cycling in a more pastoral setting, borrowing from Rondeau’s “Art Ride 2007” Hillock will keep the tradition alive on “Cow Ride 2009”.