Field guide No. 896
Projector light becomes velvet curtain
The beam learns to drape
A projector throws a violet curtain of light across a dark screening room. The film has taken a more physical form.
Field noteA projector beam gathers into a heavy purple curtain. Light has acquired a hem.
- Specimen
- No. 896
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dark screening room.
- Nearest existing relative
- A cinema projector.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
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