Field guide No. 277
A stamp of deep time
Approved, about four hundred million years ago.
An old rubber stamp rests beside a sheet of paper whose fresh imprint is a cross-section of layered rock, red and grey strata and all. Some paperwork takes longer than others.
Field noteA rubber stamp can print a picture of strata. Printing the strata themselves is the stamp overreaching.
Also possible, also breaking category
Field notesTerraces are carved hillsides; pages are carved trees. Read generously, it is a sculpture of a farm.
The second skin of MondayCandles can be packed into anything with a lining. A raincoat makes an odd but legal sconce.
Chrome cart, amber huskMoulting is for insects; carts are made, not grown. A category slip with wheels.
Attached to this placeBent steel spans canals daily. Bending it into office supplies is a design choice.