Field guide No. 441
Daylight sky, midnight tide pool
Low tide, deep space.
On a rocky shore under a bright blue sky, a gull stands beside a tide pool that reflects a night full of stars and the Milky Way. The pool is on a different clock.
Field noteA pool reflects the sky above it. This one shows midnight under noon, so it reflects a sky that isn’t there.
- Specimen
- No. 441
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A rocky shore at low tide.
- Nearest existing relative
- A tide pool.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Frozen campfire in an abandoned freezerA fire is heat or it is nothing. This campfire is frozen through, frost on its flames, and still a campfire.
Winter under glassA mirror shows what is in front of it. Showing frost that isn’t there makes it not a mirror, while being one.
A glacier opens to summerOne doorway, two seasons side by side, both in the same air. Winter and summer can’t share a threshold.
A dog dreaming of JulyOne pane shows a winter yard and a summer one at once. A reflection should at least agree on the month.