Field guide No. 1429
Cosmic stars in a vacant garage
The top deck is space
An empty car park at night has holes in its concrete ceiling, and through each one shows a starfield instead of the level above. Parking upstairs is not advised.
Field noteConcrete decks stack level on level, but these gaps show open space where the next floor should be.
- Specimen
- No. 1429
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An empty parking deck at night, lower level.
- Nearest existing relative
- A planetarium dome.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Cubical soap bubbles from a rusted radiatorA soap film pulls itself into a sphere. A free-floating cube of bubble would have to be pulling and not pulling at once.
Starlings perched on a sagging sunbeamStarlings perch on a band of sunlight as if it were a wire. The evening has installed a rail.
Blacklight campfire on the salt flatFlames are light by definition; these are black and still throw a glow onto the salt crust.
Fallen dominoes, standing shadowsToppled tiles casting upright shadows: the shadows belong to dominoes that aren’t there.