Field guide No. 1501
Sunlit half transparent tomatoes on a tangled vine
Ripening, partly.
Green tomatoes on a sunny vine, each one half clear glass that shows the garden behind. Only half needs picking.
Field noteEach tomato is half glass and half fruit with no seam, one body that is both.
- Specimen
- No. 1501
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A sunny garden vine against an ochre wall.
- Nearest existing relative
- A green tomato.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
From sugar cubes to granite bouldersEach cube is sugar at the top of the fall and granite at the bottom, and no single cube is ever both.
Woven brick swallows a shopping cartBrick is fired clay, set hard. This wall weaves like wicker and closes round a trolley.
Straight strings, warped violinA violin’s body bends into a wave while its strings stay straight. The instrument has divided the difference.
Knotted amethyst geode in quarry stoneQuartz crystals grow straight and brittle, yet these points line a rope that was tied while hard.