Field guide No. 1003
Impossible split ring onion
Two halves share a pattern
Two red onion halves rest cut-side up on a metal surface. Their rings have both come to the same conclusion.
Field noteTwo onion halves have rings that meet in one conclusion. The layers agree with themselves.
- Specimen
- No. 1003
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A metal work surface.
- Nearest existing relative
- A red onion.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
Invisible cloth, vivid red reflectionMirrors return what is there. This tray reports a red cloth the room only holds as clear.
The onion’s impossible reflectionSteel reflects what’s set on it. Here the onion is one shape and its reflection another, both at once.
Magnet bending the horizonHorizons are where the eye runs out, not a thing to pull, and this magnet has pulled one up anyway.
Yellow stripes over a violet cloudLane lines are paint on a track and have no other surface. These carry on over cloud as if it were ground.