Field guide No. 848
Crumpled lilac room reflection
A room folded in on itself
A lilac room buckles into sharp folds around a small mirror on a table. The reflection is the least complicated part.
Field noteThe room folds like paper around its mirror. The walls have borrowed a softer material.
- Specimen
- No. 848
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A vacant lilac room.
- Nearest existing relative
- A paper model of a room.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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