Field guide No. 1336
Onion skin over a rusty wheelbarrow
Makes the gardener cry
A wheelbarrow on an allotment has a tray of papery onion skin, split where it meets the rusty rim. It holds about one onion’s worth of anything.
Field noteWheelbarrow tray is an onion skin, papery and split at the rusted rim.
Also possible, also breaking material
Flattened bottle, upright neckGlass flows, slowly, if you wait a few centuries. This bottle waited an afternoon and kept its neck.
Pink gum splits the courtPink gum oozes up through a timber court and buckles the boards into a star; the squash is real.
Transparent goat in a sparse orchardGoat fur fades to glass mid-body, so the orchard tree behind shows right through the animal’s middle.
Sound caught in a silver colanderSound has no shape to strain; glass ripples do. As sculpture it stands; as acoustics it leaks.