

A gown made entirely of clear running water worn with bare feet in high steel stiletto heels, photographed as a fashion campaign picture in a black hall flooded ankle deep with dead still water. The heels are polished steel spikes standing in the flood, hard and mirror bright, the only solid thing in the picture. A naked woman wearing the gown steps forward onto the still surface, caught at the instant the front heel breaks it: her weight still back, the front leg long and straight, both arms held away from her sides, her shoulders square and her hips turned against them, her chin up. One ring of ripples is running out from that heel across a surface otherwise perfectly flat, and the whole flooded floor throws her back as a mirror image. One hard low light from the left rakes across the water. Camera at floor level, just above the surface. low raking side light, mirror reflection, steel against water, extreme high contrast, sharp focus, deep depth of field. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy