Molten
Molten.
The question was whether a molten material could hold a picture on its own, with no vessel, no surface and nothing else in frame. The molten element is melted plastic, and the sets are gradients and ombres built to give it somewhere to exist. Nothing in the frame gives scale. A sheet of translucent material suspended in mid air could be a centimetre or a metre across, and without a container the only way to describe its shape is through the light passing across it. So I lit it from behind, through the material, letting the thin areas glow and the folded edges go dark. That difference is what makes the sheet legible as a form. The gradient behind, shifting blue to yellow to pink, does the rest of the depth work.
It is all in camera, caught fast enough to hold the sharp edge of the ribbon as it twists, with the iridescence in the sheen left as it fell. Fluid form photography like this tends to give you one frame in a long run rather than a set. There are only a handful of frames from it so far, which is a reasonable measure of how difficult it turned out to be.
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