Welcome to Cottonwood Springs, a fictional,
pre-1912 cosmology.
You have landed in the raw chronological
archive of field art.
To observe the physical labor, process, footnotes, and endnotes behind these intercepts, consult Examine the Evidence in the menu.
The Constricted Dream
Source: Secrets of the Great Mysteries Now Revealed for the First Time by Oudini, c1909.
Source: Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.
Image source: Brain Surgery by Moses Allen Starr, 1893.Dream Dialogue No. 7
Image Source: A History of the Art of Magic by T. T. Timayenis, 1887.
Dream Dialogue No. 63
Image source: Wyoming. Why not? by Wyoming Department of Immigration, 1908.
Dream Dispensaries
Source text: Remarks Read Before a Sub-Committee Appointed to Consider the Question of Provident Dispensaries by William Ogle, 1857.
The Force Required to Stop Nightmares
Source text: On the Force Required to Stop a Moving Electrified Sphere by G. Searle, 1907.
Consider the Exertions
This piece can be considered a Convenience OR an Inconvenience, depending upon the intent with which it is used.
Mansion O'Dreams
Source image: A Design for a Governor's Mansion by Alvin Truesdell Tumbleson, 1910
How, When, and Where to Sow Dream Seeds
Source text: Ninth Annual Catalogue of Vegetable, Agricultural, and Flower Seeds, by Geo. S. Haskell & Co; 1872.
Plainly Show the Wound
Here is another example of a Convenience in Primitive-School style. 
Source: Farm Conveniences, by Byron David Halsted, 1884.
Thousands of Night Thoughts and Dreams
Image source: Das Sonnen-System, by Adam Christian Gaspari, Franz Ludwig Gussefeld, F.L. Guessefeld, C. Westermayr, 1801.
Some Old Dreams
Source text: Some Old Egyptian Librarians by Ernest Cushing Richardson, 1911.
Dream 9 Errata
Image source: Machine Embroidery Hand-book, Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 1886.
Domestic Dream Work 1
Source text: Machine Embroidery Hand-book, Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 1886.
Hand Book No. 44
Image source: Popular Pastimes for Amusement and Instruction, Henry Davenport Northrop, 1901.
Random Dreaming 1
Image source: Popular Pastimes for Amusement and Instruction, Henry Davenport Northrop, 1901.
Source: How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Fullerton, 1905.
Source: The Railway Transition Spiral by A. N. Talbot, 1901.This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
It holds everything that was found, blacked out, scribbled over, finished, unfinished, discarded. It all counts.
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