Field guide No. 1308

A concrete stairwell has a black handrail whose shadow leaves the wall at the corner and keeps going in a straight line across open air. The rail stops; the shadow doesn’t.

Handrail shadow through the corner

It carries on without the rail.

A concrete stairwell has a black handrail whose shadow leaves the wall at the corner and keeps going in a straight line across open air. The rail stops; the shadow doesn’t.

Field noteHandrail’s shadow leaves the wall at the corner and runs on across open air.

Specimen
No. 1308
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
a concrete stairwell with a painted dado
Nearest existing relative
a banister
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics