Field guide No. 1587
Lost volume
Fully relaxed, partly flat
A grey cat sleeps on a yellow patterned sofa, its head round and content but its body pressed flat as a throw. Comfort has been taken to its logical end.
Field noteCats loaf in a rounded heap; this one has gone flat as a throw from the neck down.
Also possible, also breaking material
A curtain made of shadowShadows on a bedroom wall fall in heavy folds. Cloth would struggle to drape this well.
Onion skin over a rusty wheelbarrowWheelbarrow tray is an onion skin, papery and split at the rusted rim.
Soft landingSoap films pop at a touch, yet two shards of rock pass through this one and it holds.
A soft landingBrick and pillow have traded jobs, nothing worse: the clay took the give and left the marble to the bedding.