Field guide No. 1504
Surreal twisted seats in an empty cinema
Every seat, best in the house.
An empty red cinema with its seats turned to face every direction instead of the screen. The film is showing to nobody in particular.
Field noteSwivel seats exist. These rotated on their bolts and stopped facing the screen.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Long distance chargesTwo rotary telephones face each other across a hallway. The call has been put on hold.
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.
Slow flowSnail fountains are sold at garden centres. This one is merely the size of the wall.
Hermit crab’s jade insulator shellAny hollow that fits will do for a crab between shells. A glass insulator happens to fit.