Field guide No. 437
Cat emerging from the printed page
Off the page, onto the floor.
A grey tabby printed in halftone on a sheet of paper steps off it onto a concrete floor, turning from dots into fur at the shoulders. It is now a cat, and the print is missing one.
Field noteHalf of it is ink on paper and half of it is cat. It can’t be both the picture and the thing pictured.
- Specimen
- No. 437
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A sunlit concrete floor.
- Nearest existing relative
- A tabby cat.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Three kings, one impossible boardChess has two sides and a king each. A third king means the game contradicts its own rules.
Two dimensions shortLive zebra at the front, flat cardboard at the back. One animal cannot be both, however tight the budget.
Wheelbarrow's unexpected sailboat reflectionA reflection that shows something else is not, by definition, its reflection. And yet it is.
The missing beamA beam of light is light. Solid enough to lift a chunk out and leave it on a seat, it’s also not.