Field guide No. 1472
Pillow fossils in layered chalk
Bedding planes, literally.
A pale chalk cliff with large stone pillows set in its layers, each with a buttoned dent. Somebody slept here for a very long time.
Field notePillows are stitched cloth, and here they are fossils in chalk, which only keeps things that once lived.
- Specimen
- No. 1472
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A chalk cliff face above a scree of fallen blocks.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sofa cushion.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Three kings, one impossible boardChess has two sides and a king each. A third king means the game contradicts its own rules.
The lighthouse’s black ink beamA beam is light by definition. This one is black liquid, splatters and drips, and still comes out of the lamp.
The leaf skeleton crawls awayA leaf skeleton appears to crawl away from its green leaf. The plant has left its old shape behind.
Waves growing from torn kelpKelp lives in the waves, so waves sprouting from kelp puts the sea inside its own seaweed.