Field guide No. 097
Harbor strings
Tuned to the tide.
A cobalt glass violin lies on a rocky shore at dusk, holding a lit harbour town and its boats inside the body.
Field noteGlass violins exist, and so do model harbours. Neither is improved by the tide, but both survive it.
Also possible, also breaking scale
A geological disagreementRock can bend and fold; tying a whole canyon in a knot just needs more time than there has been.
Slow amusementA miniature funfair on a glass snail is a model maker’s commission. Ambitious, not absurd.
Sunflower seatsSeed heads are already arranged in rows. Amphitheatres only needed to notice.
The coral doorknobReefs can be grown in a jar by the patient. A doorknob is just a jar with ambitions.