Field guide No. 663
Geological curtain in an empty opera house
The safety curtain, taken seriously.
In an empty gilded opera house the stage curtain hangs in heavy folds of banded red and cream sandstone, drawn back at one side to show the flies. It takes a few million years to come down at the end.
Field noteStrata lie flat for an age under weight. These drape, fold and are drawn aside, which stone does not do.
- Specimen
- No. 663
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An empty opera house, house lights up.
- Nearest existing relative
- A stage curtain.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
Stratified mirage on a desert roadA mirage is a trick of hot air, with no body at all. These stand in panes on the verge and cast shine.
Lizard swimming into plasterA lizard and its plaster impression merge on the wall. The house has become part of the animal.
Paper thin sheets, heavy shadowsSheets of paper cast shadows that drape off the table like heavy cloth.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.