Field guide No. 644
Cubical soap bubbles from a rusted radiator
The heating is on. It is foaming.
A rusty orange radiator in a green-painted room breathes out soap bubbles shaped like perfect cubes, iridescent and dripping. Bleeding it would only make more.
Field noteA soap film pulls itself into a sphere. A free-floating cube of bubble would have to be pulling and not pulling at once.
- Specimen
- No. 644
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A green basement room.
- Nearest existing relative
- Soap bubbles, and a cast-iron radiator.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Daylight through the night coneOne street shows noon through a cone and midnight around it. The detour runs both directions of time.
Brutalist staircase loopStairs that rise all the way round and land where they began are a drawing trick, poured here in concrete.
Frozen flame, warm coreA flame is heat. One made of frost is burning cold, which is the two words cancelling out.
Ember in the iceBurning coal at full glow, packed in ice that stays frozen against it. One of them is lying about the temperature.