The biggest creative risk Paloma Rincon has ever taken was in front of a live audience at a photography festival. She submerged flowers in liquid nitrogen at -200°C to capture how the blooms behave, but she had no idea whether it would actually work once in the room. There had been no time for a test day. Luckily, the risk paid off. "It’s incredible to see," she recalls, reflecting on the flying shards of petals captured at a fraction of a second. "You see something that the naked eye just can't." (Image credit: Paloma Rincon) Paloma got into still life because she's "kind of a control freak," she tells me. "Also because it can be very creative, you can create whatever you want and build things and tell your own stories." Recently, she has been creating digitally as another kind of experiment to see what happens when she tinkers with AI. But physicality remains crucial to the joy she gets from her work, and she thinks it's better for it.…