Field guide No. 188
A hole in the orchard
The night shows through.
In an orchard at dusk, an apple tree's crown opens into a round window onto the starry Milky Way.
Field noteDusk round the tree, full night through it. One sky cannot be both hours at once.
- Specimen
- No. 188
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An apple orchard at dusk, one tree after dark.
- Nearest existing relative
- An apple tree.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking category
The onion’s impossible reflectionSteel reflects what’s set on it. Here the onion is one shape and its reflection another, both at once.
The painted fish leaves the framePaint in a picture and fish out of it, at the same moment. The seascape stays strictly two-dimensional.
Two dimensions shortLive zebra at the front, flat cardboard at the back. One animal cannot be both, however tight the budget.
The chair's impossible treeA shadow is a chair’s outline or it isn’t a chair’s shadow. This one is a tree’s, cast by a chair.