Field guide No. 204
The unfinished visitor
Half rabbit, half deadline.
A white rabbit sits on a sculptor's bench, soft fur at the head and rough chiselled marble towards the tail, chips scattered around it. The artist stepped out for a minute.
Field noteFur at the head, marble at the tail, sitting up. Carved and alive at once, the rabbit is both.
- Specimen
- No. 204
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A sculptor’s bench, during the break.
- Nearest existing relative
- A white rabbit, and a marble block.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
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