Field guide No. 1342
Pillow leaf nettles in bare soil
Soft, still stings
A patch of nettles grows with leaves puffed into round green cushions. Inviting to lie on, and a terrible idea.
Field noteNettle leaves inflate into soft green cushions, stings and all.
Also possible, also breaking material
Fur along rusted teethSoft white fur grows on every tooth of a rusted cog; metal does this nowhere, but no noun disagrees.
Orange cone coils a parking stripePainted line lifts off the tarmac and wraps the cone twice.
Brass seeds in a glass pearAny glassblower and any jeweller could split this commission. Sculpture, not paradox.
Stone skipped ripples across the meadowSkipped stones ripple water. This one bounced across a meadow and the grass rings out like a pond.