Field guide No. 770
Wallpaper roses take flight
The pattern has gone for a walk.
In a pink sitting room, the roses on the wallpaper peel away and fly across the room in a stream, a fan on the floor helping. There will be bare patches.
Field notePrinted roses are ink on paper with no depth. These lift off as blooms and fly, which ink cannot do.
- Specimen
- No. 770
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A pink sitting room with a fan on.
- Nearest existing relative
- A floral wallpaper.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking category
Peel backBoulder’s shadow lifts off the wet sand at the far end like a strip of tape.
The chair's impossible treeA shadow is a chair’s outline or it isn’t a chair’s shadow. This one is a tree’s, cast by a chair.
Fossil lightning across the cliffStone keeps bones and shells. A flash lasting a thousandth of a second has no body to leave, yet here it is, set.
Wallpaper beyond the wallWallpaper is defined by the wall. This pattern has left it and hangs in the air with nothing to be paper on.