Field guide No. 110
The quiet spin cycle
Delicates, and one galaxy.
A mint-green washing machine sits in a wildflower meadow, a whole spiral galaxy turning slowly behind its door.
Field noteA galaxy, by definition, does not fit behind a porthole. On delicates, it does.
- Specimen
- No. 110
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wildflower meadow, no plumbing in sight.
- Nearest existing relative
- A front-loading washing machine.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
The paperweight glacierA mountain range in a paperweight would be a model. The glacier leaving it at full size settles otherwise.
Space to soakGalaxies run to a hundred thousand light years. The tub runs to about five feet.
Milky Way breakfastGalaxies are not portion-sized. A small one is a contradiction served in a bowl.
Lunar tempoA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.