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ELVIRA VAN BOCHOVE  Transmitting through art

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Circledance

I link the rhythm of dancers to currents and moisture.

Circledance

For as long as I can remember, nature, particularly the sea and rivers, has sent me messages of our oneness. I incorporate these into my art.

I create and share circledances, to translate these signals not only into art but also into motion patterns. Such experiments can only be done if carried by others who are willing to execute them, of course. 

Liquid light

Dance can be one of the most powerful tools for growing a deep experience of connection (with each other, the planet, the elements).
When we link like that, we ignite our environment with life energy, liquid light. In this painting I communicate its creational power.

Images reveal the transformative power more clearly than words. A change (however modest) in the way we are together with our earth.

Over the years I dreamt up many moves for all sorts of rituals and celebrations, together with an amazing group of women, my tribe Deosil Scylla. Through this we became more aware of our bond with nature and each other and generated so much joy. 

Water weaving

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Pebble tapestry

Pebble tapestry
– installation at Pop-up Wantij open air exhibition, Wantij swimmingpool

I feel such gratitude towards this willowtree. She provided a loving space for my Pebble tapestry during Pop-up Wantij. 
Several humans entered this space and were able to experience an unexplored connection with water…

The Pebble Tapestry is a gossamer painting of an outward rippling motion. You as the observer are the pebble.
Looking at this image will aid your inner eye. It activates the mind-consiousness of “oneness with nature”. In addition, physical contact with water (hands, feet, body) helps the process. It is a portal into a realm that makes you more aware of all other beings. 

As a being of water, you are connected with all water. All you have to do is send your message, the water will carry. You are rippling your reality.

Interacting with the work in this way will transform patterns on many levels. The collective experience of being connected with everything amplifies. Our behaviour towards our environment and our own bodies will change. The feeling of being separate can fade out into being part of it all.

A transformational movement starts with the insight that we are able to change things. We can actively make a difference. You are the start. You are a pebble.

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Waterfliers

Waterflyers  – 20 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas

Water flows through us all, and we flow through water. It connects and transports. We can fly like angels the moment we perceive all this stardust, and be one in water.

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Interconnectedness in Time

Interconnectedness in Time part 1

"Water shapes lives and makes roots..."

The lives of the people of Dordrecht have always been impacted by water.

People are connected to water for sustenance, but also through labor and recreation. We have a history with water but also dreams and expectations for the future. Our actions in the present and past have an impact on how water will be in our lives in the future.

Interconnectedness in Time  –  mural +/- 140 m2
Noordendijk Dordrecht  

At the centre is a meandering stream of water with branches like a root system, that connects the image of the past with the future.

Right under the roof is a fragment of a photograph from 1900 by Hendrik Johannes Tollens. It shows the beam holes on the Noordendijk, water basins where logs were preserved. For centuries these were an essential part of the timber trade that provided a living for the citizens.

The white silhouettes at the bottom represent the future. It is a diversity of people from the neighbourhood, who stand hand in hand in the water. They reflect the desire and necessity to live together with the water.

Projectmanagement Lotti Hesper/Stichting voor de Werkplaats

Interconnectedness in Time part 2

"Water shapes the land and makes roots..."

I created this work on the inside of a Watertower (part 2) and on a wall at a dyke (part 1) on the lsle of Dordrecht. It is representation of  being connected through water, in time and space.

Dordrecht became an island at the St-Elisabeth flood of 1421. This flood caused major changes. The dikes broke through, villages were washed away, the water was everywhere. The consequences unfolded in the following years. Suddenly there was an inland sea, with this island in it. Slowly but surely the Biesbosch was created. In the following centuries, areas were reclaimed, and the island was shaped into its current form.

Interconnectedness in Time  –  mural +/- 61 m2
Watertower Dubbeldam

The streams on the walls represent the influence of the waters on shaping the Isle of Dordrecht. On three of the seven floors there is a map of the island from a period of the past to the present. Water is flowing from it as a root system, part of the cycle.

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We are mostly water

This human is the container and the water that feeds the earth. The water that she drank is floating in her eyes.  Tiny fishes enter through the straw and can be seen swimming there. The fishes are part of her body, that is their habitat. 

“We are mostly water”
Acylic on canvas – 100 x 100 cm

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My bubbletea drinking daughter, who has these huge eyes was my model for the painting. At the time she kind of wanted to be a froggirl (she watches anime a lot). It is quiet easy to recognise her as a watercreature…

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She would rather turn to foam than kill him


The sea that once was her home is about to swallow the Little Mermaid, who is turning into foam. This is the consequence of the Prince loving someone else more then her. She could have saved herself by stabbing a dagger in his heart on the night of his marriage. But she loved him more than her own life and threw herself into the sea. Knowing that she would ultimately dissolve into it…
“She would rather turn to foam than kill him” is after “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais.

She would rather turn to foam than kill him     2020

acrylics on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

The Little Mermaid and her choices...

The classic fairytale by Hans Christiaan Andersen is the guiding principle for a series of paintings I am working on. The tragedy of her being a creature without much power to choose the life that she desires gives her little self-love. Using works from art history, I hilight emancipatory issues that are in the story.

She traded her voice for a pair of legs   2019