Equally impressive were his team's efforts to film the only freshwater seal gliding beneath luminous, three-foot-thick ice sheets in the freezing water world of Lake Baikal in Siberia.
"Far Horizon" gives the impression of a glowing pink object imbedded like a mystic jewel in luminous green and aqua blue ice.
Other, larger paintings of soft-edged ice cubes immersed in luminous liquids of different colors verge on hallucinatory abstraction.
A moment later, I was in a cartoonishly prismatic ice cave with a luminous fire pit in the distance and an Excel spreadsheet hovering up close.
There is a glimpse beneath the ice, where whales and luminous jellyfish swim amid the bubbles, and a mixture of live and recorded music provides a soundtrack throughout.
The film stars Cate Blanchett, whose luminous complexion was complemented by an ice pink Balenciaga gown with appliqué flowers.
The luminous matter, he said, is like icing.
These are extracts: "this deadly, winking, sniggering, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of Mother Love..
In 1959 the Daily Mirror referred to Liberace as "a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love".
Everything that he, she, and it can ever want… a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love".
Most famously, he sued the Daily Mirror over an innuendo-laden article by William Connor, who wrote under the pen-name Cassandra, which described the musician as "the pinnacle of masculine, feminine, and neuter... a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love".
