Field guide No. 1335
One moth, six shadows
Overcast by itself
A moth rests on a plaster wall near a single bare bulb and casts six shadows fanned like petals. One light, one moth, far too much shade.
Field noteMoth sits under one bulb and throws six shadows fanned like a flower.
- Specimen
- No. 1335
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a plaster wall beside a bare bulb
- Nearest existing relative
- a moth on a wall
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
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