Field guide No. 1570
Heavy duty
Hang your coat. Bring the wall.
A row of brass coat hooks runs along a peeling corridor. Each hook has dragged the wall out into long fabric folds, as if the plaster were a sheet.
Field noteCoat hooks tugging plaster into drapery, the wall hanging off them like a dust sheet.
Also possible, also breaking material
Tender spotSeedlings crack stone over years; here the granite has folded aside like a curtain.
Amethyst seam through breakfastCrystal veins take ages to form in rock. This one formed through a loaf baked this morning and the worktop under it.
Soft evidenceA raised fingerprint marks a teacup. The evidence will be difficult to wash.
Knotted brick chimneyChimney tied in an overhand knot, its brickwork bending like rope.
