Field guide No. 231

A huge golden dune at sunset is rippled into the swirling ridges of a fingerprint. Someone touched the desert, and the desert remembers.

The sand keeps score

The desert left a print.

A huge golden dune at sunset is rippled into the swirling ridges of a fingerprint. Someone touched the desert, and the desert remembers.

Field noteWind ripples dunes already; this one copied a thumb at a few thousand times life size.

Specimen
No. 231
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
A golden dune at sunset, never quite the same twice.
Nearest existing relative
A sand dune, and a fingerprint.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking scale