


A gown made entirely of clear running water worn with one heavy steel chain lying across the collarbones, photographed as a fashion campaign picture in an old bathhouse tiled floor to ceiling in sour pale green under cold fluorescent tubes. The chain is thick, dull and dry, the only hard thing in a room where everything else is wet, and the water runs over and between its links. A naked woman wearing it is down in a low crouch on the wet tile, heels off the floor, knees wide, both forearms resting along her thighs with the hands hanging open, her back straight, her head tipped up and turned to the lens with no expression. Water pours off her knees and forearms and floods the tile around her feet. Camera at the height of her face, level, close. overhead fluorescent tubes, flat cold light, sour green tile, steel against clear water, high contrast, sharp focus, deep depth of field. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy






