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Skinny Dipping
SUSAN HILLARY
acrylic on framed glass window
76H x 18W in (193 × 46 cm)
This piece is actually a painting on a French door window I found on the side of the road. I had taught myself to paint originally on glass when I was living in NYC in the 1980s. Painting on windows is painting in reverse, putting the details down before the background. When hung in a window, the painted windows change throughout the day depending on the natural light. This piece was inspired from a storyboard of script, I was helping develop at the time entitled “Kill Bill”, not the Tarantino film, which was written by a very strong woman, Eva Montenegro, and was about a very strong female protagonist, whose passion for living and loving changes the lives of those around her. I used films starring Esther Williams as reference images. For me water and the female energies are deeply connected in the act of swimming and embracing underwater.
acrylic on framed glass window
76H x 18W in (193 × 46 cm)
This piece is actually a painting on a French door window I found on the side of the road. I had taught myself to paint originally on glass when I was living in NYC in the 1980s. Painting on windows is painting in reverse, putting the details down before the background. When hung in a window, the painted windows change throughout the day depending on the natural light. This piece was inspired from a storyboard of script, I was helping develop at the time entitled “Kill Bill”, not the Tarantino film, which was written by a very strong woman, Eva Montenegro, and was about a very strong female protagonist, whose passion for living and loving changes the lives of those around her. I used films starring Esther Williams as reference images. For me water and the female energies are deeply connected in the act of swimming and embracing underwater.
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