Field guide No. 924
Tea returns against gravity
The tea makes a second attempt
A teapot pours a looping stream of tea back into a tilted cup on a dark table. The spill has reconsidered its direction.
Field noteA stream of tea arcs back from the cup toward the teapot. The spill has reconsidered its direction.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Sugar vortex beneath a silver spoonSugar pours in a spiral when the spoon is tilted. The tea has gone missing.
Margin of errorA square-cut slab juts from a basalt cliff over a braided river, the only tidy thing in the valley.
Going upLifts exist and so do clouds. Getting one to wait inside the other is weather’s business.
Muddy footprints through the skylightFootprints belong on floors. These cross the ceiling and keep walking on sky.