Field guide No. 892
Pear pressed into white marble
Fruit meets a firm surface
A green pear stands on a white marble counter that rises gently around its base. The kitchen has started keeping its produce close.
Field noteA pear sinks into a marble counter without breaking its surface. The stone has gone soft around the fruit.
- Specimen
- No. 892
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A bright kitchen counter.
- Nearest existing relative
- A green pear.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
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