Daniel Liam Gill

Part of the Con­nec­tive Tissue/​Visceralia Series, this nude study of Erika was cre­ated at Hip­bone Stu­dio. It’s from a 30 minute pose at the end of a three hour ses­sion. I do sev­eral ges­tures to warm up and hit my stride in the 30 minut­ers. Painters talk about the muse and not being aware of what’s going on when they’re in a trace state. It hap­pened to me with this paint­ing. View­ers see so many dif­fer­ent things in this, a mother nurs­ing a child, a fig­ure hold­ing it’s guts in. It’s the power in the arm that does it for me, the strain of hold­ing the rope.