Field guide No. 864
Flat bottle, bulging golden wine
A bottle that forgot its shape
A glass bottle bulges into a flat oval against a peach-coloured wall, still full of golden liquid. The container has made room by giving up its dimensions.
Field noteA flattened glass bottle bulges around its golden contents. The container has negotiated a compromise.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Afternoon, somewhereA chair, some arches and a flooded floor. Architects have done stranger things on purpose.
Ants mend a shattered cobalt teapotAnts do bridge gaps with their bodies. That they chose a teapot is odd, not contradictory.
Flames along a melting alpine snowbankFire burns along the edge of an alpine snowbank. The mountain has declined to pick a season.
Wax icicles in an empty school corridorWax hangs from school lockers and pools across an empty corridor. The last bell has melted into the floor.