Field guide No. 363
Five nested eggs on cobalt enamel
Breakfast, in layers.
On a chipped blue enamel surface, a cracked egg opens to show more eggs nested inside it, shell within shell, down to one small yolk. The spoon is waiting to see how deep it goes.
Field noteEach egg holds a whole egg the same size as itself, nearly. Shell inside shell can’t all fit.
- Specimen
- No. 363
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A chipped enamel tabletop.
- Nearest existing relative
- A Russian-doll set.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Lunar tempoA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.
The paperweight glacierA mountain range in a paperweight would be a model. The glacier leaving it at full size settles otherwise.
Owl in the last dandelionDandelion clocks are thumb-sized; owls aren’t. Here the seed head is both small and a nest.
Peak espressoMountain ranges with ski lifts outsize their crockery. This cup is holding one anyway.