Field guide No. 668
Horse emerging from a chalk outline
Drawn, then off.
In a cobbled farmyard a white horse steps out of a grey stone wall, its front half flesh and its back half still a chalk drawing on the stone. Whoever drew it should have started with the gate.
Field noteHalf chalk and half horse, joined at the ribs, and the chalk half is walking too.
- Specimen
- No. 668
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A cobbled farmyard by a grey stone wall.
- Nearest existing relative
- A white horse, and a chalk drawing.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
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