Field guide No. 156
Last light at the funnel
Pouring the sunset.
A huge copper funnel stands on a cracked salt flat, its bowl full of the sunset, with a ladder and one tiny visitor.
Field noteRead charitably, the bowl holds something that reflects the sunset. Funnels have never been charitable.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Under lock and leafGardens shrink to fit almost anything. Glass padlocks are rarer, and lock very little.
After hours at the colanderPerforated domes make good restaurants and better lanterns. The pasta never had to know.
The sand keeps scoreWind ripples dunes already; this one copied a thumb at a few thousand times life size.
Away gameSpheres can be made big; holding a planet’s worth of rubber aloft is the snag.