Field guide No. 983
Dry seafloor in a giant wave
A wave carries a desert
A huge ocean wave lifts a dry, rocky seafloor above the shore. The tide has misplaced its water.
Field noteA dry rocky seabed rises inside an ocean wave. The tide misplaced its water.
- Specimen
- No. 983
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A shore beneath a breaking wave.
- Nearest existing relative
- A wave.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Iron anchor, leafbound chainThe chain is iron at the anchor and leaves at the top, and each link holds the next with no point of change.
Crystalline peach on cobaltThe peach is both fruit and faceted crystal. Dessert has entered the mineral collection.
Hermit crab’s bubble shellA shell that is a soap bubble is a home and a pop at once; the crab cannot live in both.
Sunlit half transparent tomatoes on a tangled vineEach tomato is half glass and half fruit with no seam, one body that is both.