Field guide No. 1477
Quartz thread across a fractured cliff
Sewn up, eventually.
Split rust-stained cliffs with a thin white quartz vein running straight across the gaps between them. The cliff is held by a stitch.
Field noteQuartz veins live inside rock, yet this one spans open air between split blocks as a taut thread.
- Specimen
- No. 1477
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A quarry floor between split limestone blocks.
- Nearest existing relative
- A washing line.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Summer above, winter belowA reflection shows what is there. Snow in the water and none on the hills is the lake disagreeing.
Ember trapped in branching iceFire burns in the heart of a snowflake and neither gives. Something here is both hot enough and cold enough.
Daylight through the night coneOne street shows noon through a cone and midnight around it. The detour runs both directions of time.
Brutalist staircase loopStairs that rise all the way round and land where they began are a drawing trick, poured here in concrete.