Field guide No. 527
The open door of air
Keeps nothing out, beautifully.
In a whitewashed courtyard, a blue doorframe holds a door made of something clear as air, swung open onto washing on a line. It closes perfectly and keeps nothing out.
Field noteA door is whatever stops you. This one is made of air, so it is shut and open at once and stops nothing.
- Specimen
- No. 527
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A whitewashed courtyard.
- Nearest existing relative
- A glass door.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
Pillow-soft impact in rigid crystalRigid crystal shatters or holds. This block is called rigid and takes a sledgehammer like a pillow.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
Copper stitches mend the torn skySky has nothing to tear and nothing to sew into. Stitches in it mend a fabric that isn’t one.