Field guide No. 894
Pigeon escapes a printed photograph
The pigeon leaves the picture
A pigeon stands beside a black-and-white photograph that it appears to have torn through. The image has lost its subject.
Field noteA live pigeon stands outside the photograph it has torn through. The picture has lost its subject.
- Specimen
- No. 894
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A paved courtyard.
- Nearest existing relative
- A printed photograph.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Wallpaper beyond the wallWallpaper is defined by the wall. This pattern has left it and hangs in the air with nothing to be paper on.
Sleeping fox, standing shadowA fox sleeps while its shadow stands upright. One of them is keeping watch.
The unfinished visitorFur at the head, marble at the tail, sitting up. Carved and alive at once, the rabbit is both.
Crab climbs through painted drainA painted drain is flat paint on a floor. A crab climbs out of its depth, so it is a picture and a hole at once.