Alone on the Ledge
The same glass placed alone and frontal on a bare ledge against an absolute black void, raked hard from the left.
Amber and Ice
A faceted tumbler of amber liquid with ice and cucumber, light refracting through the glass and everything else falling into shadow.
Chalk Cylinder
The same glass reduced to a dry matte cylinder in dusty close-valued colour, all transparency and sparkle stripped away.
Scrubbed and Stippled
The same glass built from granular stippled paint on a coarse cloth, with a few decisive touches of near-white impasto at the rim.
Tendrils and Dew
The glass wreathed in leaves and curling tendrils in a rising diagonal, cucumber seeds and beaded dew described exactly against darkness.