

A gown made entirely of clear running water worn with heavy black rubber boots to the knee, photographed as a fashion campaign picture against a seamless burnt orange paper backdrop. The boots are matte, blunt and dry, and they land first. A naked woman wearing it is in the air with both feet off the ground, caught at the top of a jump with the knees pulled up and apart and the heavy boots hanging under her, her back arched, both arms flung straight out sideways, her chin up, looking straight into the lens. The gown has come away from her body in the jump and hangs around her in the air as a bursting shell of white threads and separate drops, and the water she has left is still falling to the paper under her. A studio strobe freezes every drop dead. Camera at hip height, level, square on. studio strobe, frozen motion, saturated burnt orange, rubber against clear water, extreme high contrast, sharp focus. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy