

A gown of running water that changes colour down its own length, photographed as a fashion campaign picture in a white studio against a plain white wall and white floor. At her shoulders the water is completely clear; from the ribs down it darkens into saturated deep ink blue, and by the hem it is almost black blue, the colour bleeding downward inside the falling water in visible streaks and clouds. It pours off the hem and stains a wide spreading blue pool across the white floor, the blue running out into the white in long fingers. A naked woman wearing it stands with her weight dropped onto one hip, that hip pushed far out, one hand behind her neck with the elbow high and the other hanging open, her chin down and her eyes straight into the lens. Even soft daylight from a large source on the left. Camera at chest height, level. soft even studio light, white on white, one saturated ink blue, sharp focus, deep depth of field. Across the lower middle of the picture, well clear of the bottom edge, a pencil signature: Ziggy