Field guide No. 1127
Hollow candles, solid flames
The flame is the load-bearing part.
Six tall white candles stand on a dark dining table by a window, hollow-walled and dripping, each topped with a flame that looks carved from wax. The wick, sensibly, left.
Field noteFlames carved solid sit on hollow dripping candles: the burning part cannot be a stone and a burn.
- Specimen
- No. 1127
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dining table with the window shut.
- Nearest existing relative
- a row of dinner candles.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Feathers forged into steelWhite feathers emerge from a press as a solid steel bar. The metal remembers its softer ingredients.
Red straws through the tableStraws stand in a glass and poke out beneath the table. The tabletop is solid on its upper side only.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
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.