Field guide No. 901
Red ball through time
The game keeps rolling
A line of red balls travels across a worn gym floor, leaving cracked marks behind them. The match has outlasted the equipment.
Field noteRed balls roll across a gym floor, each leaving a cracked mark behind. The game has kept the earlier moves.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Strained starlightPunch holes in a dome and put a bulb inside. Kitchens have done this for decades without the brochure.
Dandelion under glassA cloche over grass in a sanded-up room. Gardeners do this. They rarely do it in a house the desert has moved into.
Leaves suspended over leaf shaped voidsAutumn leaves hover above matching holes in the forest floor. The ground has filed the leaves away.
The long way inA steep lit aisle up to a distant door, seats facing nowhere. A theatre could be built this way, to everyone’s regret.