Field guide No. 837
Black swan and ripples in dry grass
A dark bird edits the field
A black swan moves through dry grass, leaving broad ripples across the field. The water has apparently been misplaced.
Field noteRipples belong to water, while the swan crosses dry grass. The field has borrowed a lake’s surface.
- Specimen
- No. 837
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dry field at harvest.
- Nearest existing relative
- A black swan.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
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