On the wall long things get tied up. A river through an autumn marsh ties itself into an overhand knot and flows on through the loop; beech roots reach across a stream and knot above the water; the striped cliffs of a red canyon loop through each other; a tornado over the prairie has a tight knot halfway up its funnel and can’t get anywhere; the strata of a badlands cliff are neat at the top and bottom and knotted in the middle; the northern lights have snagged on a radio mast and hang there tangled.
Anything that runs long enough tangles, the way thread does, and that undoing the knots is part of the repairs. Who undoes them is left open on purpose: nobody in the pictures is untying anything.
On record
- Who undoes the knots on the wall? It is left open on purpose: nobody in the pictures is untying anything. Settled 2026-10-16.
The facts
- Kind
- Concept
- World
- Outside
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Knotted tornado over the prairie”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Air can’t hold a knot. This funnel has tied an overhand in itself and kept spinning.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “A geological disagreement”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Rock can bend and fold; tying a whole canyon in a knot just needs more time than there has been.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Knotted river through autumn marsh”: Impossible, the round square kind. Water in a knot has to cross over itself, flowing above its own surface without a bridge.
More pictures
On the wall
Pieces of Fresh slop with this in them. The pictures don’t say they are the same one.
Connections
- tangle like the thread of The spools
- waiting for Repairs
- tied like the thread on Spool of thread
- The northern lights snagged in this