Field guide No. 660
From sugar cubes to granite boulders
One lump or several tonnes.
Sugar cubes tumble out of a bowl on a pale green kitchen counter and grow as they fall, landing as granite blocks that crack the floor tiles. Nobody will be asking for two.
Field noteEach cube is sugar at the top of the fall and granite at the bottom, and no single cube is ever both.
- Specimen
- No. 660
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A pale green kitchen, mid-morning.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sugar cube.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
A machine that stitches fogStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.
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.
Stone swimmerA silver fish is embedded in solid rock. The quarry kept its last swimmer.