Field guide No. 1259
Yellow canoe through stone
Portaged the wrong way.
A yellow canoe passes straight through a rough grey boulder on a concrete slab, with its two halves emerging at either end. The boulder has not been asked to move.
Field noteA solid canoe and a solid boulder occupy the same place. Both are stated to be hard; the picture cannot keep that up.
- Specimen
- No. 1259
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Concrete slabs, where boulders stop canoes
- Nearest existing relative
- a canoe on a rock beside a lake.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Feathers forged into steelWhite feathers emerge from a press as a solid steel bar. The metal remembers its softer ingredients.
Hollow candles, solid flamesFlames carved solid sit on hollow dripping candles: the burning part cannot be a stone and a burn.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Iron anchor, leafbound chainThe chain is iron at the anchor and leaves at the top, and each link holds the next with no point of change.