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.
Where are Your Ghosts Hiding
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.
Fragrances Inside Your Dreams
Image source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper, 1852.
Cold Individual Dream
Image source: Among the Northern Icebergs by Emma Hildreth Adams, 1890.
The More I Speak for Myself
Background source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Benevolent Dream Power Company
Source: Buffalo Steam Pump Company Bulletin No. 261 by Buffalo Steam Pump Company, 1910.
Source: Rue with a Difference by Rosa Nouchette Carey, 1901.Mosaics Containing Multitudes
Image source: Romano-British Mosaic Pavements by Thomas Morgan, 1886.
Release and Discharge of Bad Dreams
Source: Release and Discharge of Powers by John Chipman Gray, 1911.
Dream of Metamorphosis
Image source: British Libellulinae, or, Dragon flies, by William Frederick Evans, 1845.
Source: Vortex Philosophy by C. Staniland Wake,1907.
Image source: Mills Seed Catalogue, 1887.
Image source: The Inner Planets by Robert Stawell Ball, 1892.
Shaped Dreams 1
Image source: A Natural History of the Crinoidea, or Lily-Shaped Animals by John Sebastian Miller, 1821.
Image source: Ice and Ice-Work in Newfoundland by John Milne, John, 1876.
Image source: The Young Astronomer by James Henry Carlisle, 1891. Counterfeit Dreams
Source: A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons by Friedrich Christian Accum, 1822.
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.
Come back next week to see more ephemera.