Field guide No. 1450
Impossible ceramic knot between two cups
A matching set, literally.
A blue cup and a red cup on a marble café table, their handles stretched into one tied knot. Neither can be washed without the other.
Field noteGlazed handles that were fired solid are tied through each other, which a kiln does not allow.
- Specimen
- No. 1450
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A marble café table set for two who can’t leave separately.
- Nearest existing relative
- A pair of linked keyrings.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Red straws through the tableStraws stand in a glass and poke out beneath the table. The tabletop is solid on its upper side only.
Fish over folded pool waterWater folded into a stack keeps its shape, which is the one thing water doesn’t do.
Ironing a sheet of smokeSmoke is not cloth, yet here it lies pressed flat as linen and curls away as smoke past the board’s end.
Elastic strata span a desert canyonStone strata stretch like elastic across a canyon. The cliff has mistaken itself for a bridge.