

A gown made entirely of clear running water worn with long black leather opera gloves that reach above the elbow, photographed as a fashion campaign picture against a seamless blood red paper backdrop filling the whole frame. She is in the picture full length: the camera stands back far enough that there is empty red paper above her raised hands, and her bare feet and the pool around them are inside the bottom of the frame, with red floor visible below them. The gloves are matte black, dry and hard where everything else is wet and moving, and the water runs down over them and off the fingertips in threads. A naked woman wearing it stands with both arms crossed high above her head, each gloved hand gripping the opposite elbow, her ribs lifted, her hips pushed to one side against the turn of her shoulders, her chin down and her eyes straight into the lens with no expression. The gown falls from her raised arms in one long unbroken sheet down her whole body and breaks into a red pool at her feet. A hard direct flash lights her flat and throws one sharp shadow on the red behind. Camera at chest height, level, square on, standing well back. studio flash, flat frontal light, saturated red, black leather against clear water, full length figure, extreme high contrast, sharp focus. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy