Field guide No. 252
The chair's impossible tree
Casting more than it should.
A red wooden chair stands alone on a snowfield at sunset, and its long blue shadow branches out like a tree. The chair is not saying anything.
Field noteA shadow is a chair’s outline or it isn’t a chair’s shadow. This one is a tree’s, cast by a chair.
- Specimen
- No. 252
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A snowfield at sunset, where shadows run long.
- Nearest existing relative
- A red wooden chair, and its shadow.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
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A scarf’s impossible shadowTaut scarf, slack shadow. One object, two tensions, and only one of them is telling the truth.