Field guide No. 1423
Brutalist staircase loop
Up is a loop
In a concrete hall lit by tube lights, a staircase climbs, curls over itself and comes back down to where it began. It goes somewhere, technically.
Field noteStairs that rise all the way round and land where they began are a drawing trick, poured here in concrete.
- Specimen
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- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A concrete stairwell with green strip lights.
- Nearest existing relative
- A spiral staircase.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Empty lunch bags cast chicken shadowsPaper bags throw boxy shadows; under the strip light these six throw hens, combs and all.
Summer above, winter belowA reflection shows what is there. Snow in the water and none on the hills is the lake disagreeing.
Ember trapped in branching iceFire burns in the heart of a snowflake and neither gives. Something here is both hot enough and cold enough.
Daylight through the night coneOne street shows noon through a cone and midnight around it. The detour runs both directions of time.