Field guide No. 426
An orange across alternate histories
Every segment a different outcome.
A peeled orange on slate opens to segments that are each something else: one glass, one charred black, one dried, one lime green, the rest plain orange. One fruit, several possible afternoons.
Field noteOne orange with segments of glass, char and lime. A fruit can’t be every way it might have turned out.
- Specimen
- No. 426
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A slate worktop, mid-peel.
- Nearest existing relative
- An orange.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
Copper stitches mend the torn skySky has nothing to tear and nothing to sew into. Stitches in it mend a fabric that isn’t one.
Pillow-soft impact in rigid crystalRigid crystal shatters or holds. This block is called rigid and takes a sledgehammer like a pillow.
A machine that stitches fogStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.
