Field guide No. 642
Crab climbs through painted drain
The drain was only painted on.
On a blue-painted floor somebody has painted a drain cover in black and white, and a red crab is climbing up out of it as if it were real. It must have read the paint first.
Field noteA painted drain is flat paint on a floor. A crab climbs out of its depth, so it is a picture and a hole at once.
- Specimen
- No. 642
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A blue-painted yard.
- Nearest existing relative
- A street drain.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
Two deer, one living antlerTwo deer share one branching antler. The herd has reduced its headcount of horns.
Waves growing from torn kelpKelp lives in the waves, so waves sprouting from kelp puts the sea inside its own seaweed.
A leash tied to the horizonLeads tie to posts and hands. The horizon is neither, and it backs away as you walk toward it.
The garden’s colors in the washColour belongs to the flowers, not to the air near them. Here it ran off the garden into a sheet like dye.