Field guide No. 1470
Peeling rust, goosebumped metal
Cold feet, cast iron.
Old pipes, valves and gears with rust peeling away to show pink, goosebumped skin underneath. The machinery is chilly.
Field noteIron pipe under the rust is living skin, and gets goosebumps, which machinery has no nerves for.
- Specimen
- No. 1470
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An engine house that nobody has heated for decades.
- Nearest existing relative
- A plucked chicken.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Impossible ceramic knot between two cupsGlazed handles that were fired solid are tied through each other, which a kiln does not allow.
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.