Field guide No. 1509

A ruined brick wall whose red courses flow down and out across the rubble in long curving ribbons. Demolition, if the bricks had decided to wander off by themselves.

Terracotta tails across the rubble

The wall left, slowly.

A ruined brick wall whose red courses flow down and out across the rubble in long curving ribbons. Demolition, if the bricks had decided to wander off by themselves.

Field noteCourses of fired clay drooping like rope ask a lot of mortar, yet every brick is still a brick.

Specimen
No. 1509
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Material
Where it doesn’t exist
A demolition site where the wall walked off.
Nearest existing relative
A coil of ship’s rope.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking material