Field guide No. 292
A machine that stitches fog
Hemming the coastline.
An old sewing machine on a dockside workbench feeds a bank of sea fog through its needle and out in neat pleats. Someone has to take the weather in.
Field noteStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.
- Specimen
- No. 292
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wharf workshop with the doors open to the sea.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sewing machine.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Fish over folded pool waterWater folded into a stack keeps its shape, which is the one thing water doesn’t do.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
Pigeon on a soft brick cushionBrick that sags like a cushion is not brick, whatever the mortar says.