Field guide No. 1338
Paper thin sheets, heavy shadows
Light reading, heavy shade
Loose sheets of paper on a long archive table cast shadows that hang to the floor like black velvet. The documents are thin; their consequences are not.
Field noteSheets of paper cast shadows that drape off the table like heavy cloth.
- Specimen
- No. 1338
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a long table in a dusty records room
- Nearest existing relative
- a tablecloth
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
Knotted amethyst geode in quarry stoneQuartz crystals grow straight and brittle, yet these points line a rope that was tied while hard.
Water flame, fire dripsWater cannot burn, nor fire drip. This candle’s flame is splashing water and its drips are flame.
Transparent flames in a glass forestFlame is moving gas, glass is still solid. These trees are both, with bark-like ridges in the shine.
Red kite tears open the skyA kite opens a bright tear through the blue sky. The weather has been treated like cloth.