Field guide No. 1180
Salt keeps score
Four paws, one starry tally.
Large pawprints press into white salt crust, each filled with black glittering with tiny stars. Whatever walked here took the night with it and left the receipt.
Field notePawprints in the salt crust are filled with starry black. Whatever walked here took night with it.
Also possible, also breaking material
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.
Crystalline wings in black lavaOrange butterfly wings are packed into a lava crack like ore. Mining it would call for tweezers.
Onion skin over a rusty wheelbarrowWheelbarrow tray is an onion skin, papery and split at the rusted rim.