Field guide No. 946
Absorbent architecture
Laundry joins the masonry
A wet towel hangs from a rail beside brickwork in an empty laundromat. It is becoming part of the building’s maintenance plan.
Field noteA wet towel hangs beside brickwork. The building has outsourced maintenance.
Also possible, also breaking material
A stitch in porcelainThread through china would need holes the needle can’t make. Stubborn, not contradictory.
Empty net, warped pierPlanks bend a little. These have sagged into the shape of a full net with nothing in it, like wet cloth.
Pink gum splits the courtPink gum oozes up through a timber court and buckles the boards into a star; the squash is real.
Translucent tongue at the salt lickTongue of clear crystal stretches from a doe to the pink salt rock, glassy as the seam it licks.