JOANN VERBURG: When I set up this picture, I was interested in trying to answer a question for myself, which is, was it possible to make a picture in which the drama seemed to be going on outside the frame of the photograph? And that is based on a detail from a work by Giotto an early Italian Renaissance painter.
SUSAN KISMARIC: In his painting, Isaac Rejecting Esau, Giotto depicts a woman holding her hand to her chest and looking away, apprehensively.
JOANN VERBURG: I had drawn the image out based on Giotto's painting, and set up my own version in the swimming pool. So, what I was doing in the picture on the left was really creating something for her to look past.
I wanted to try to create this sense of reaction rather than giving the information as to what she was reacting to.
There are so many things I love about Giotto overall, is his humanity. He has such an incredible sense of what the limits of human nature are, how we make mistakes, and what our hopes are.
