Field guide No. 311
Koi swimming through wood
The floor has a current.
Three koi swim through a sunlit herringbone floor, leaving ripples in the wood grain as they go. Mind your step.
Field noteA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
- Specimen
- No. 311
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A sunny living room, parquet floor.
- Nearest existing relative
- A koi pond.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Fish over folded pool waterWater folded into a stack keeps its shape, which is the one thing water doesn’t do.
Pigeon on a soft brick cushionBrick that sags like a cushion is not brick, whatever the mortar says.
A machine that stitches fogStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.