Welcome to Cottonwood Springs, a fictional,
pre-1912 cosmology.
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archive of field art.
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Which Visions Form?
Source: Center of Vision, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 1903.
Occasion Number 6 Million
Occasion Number 6 Million
This time in the dream, resist not even resistance
Source: Study of Resistance of Grounds by Herbert Eugene Bell, 1910.
Source: Photography and Focus, 1908.
Source: Spiritual Tales by Fiona Macleod, 1897.
Image source: The Confessional by Robert James Culverwell, 1841.Memory and Imagination
Memory and Imagination
A sensitive and imaginative mind frequently sees the phantoms during sleep.
Memory and Imagination active something more:
the brightness and distinction of reality.
Text source: Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind Upon the Body in Health and Disease by Daniel Hack Tuke, 1884.Image source: The Principles of Light and Color by Edwin D. Babbitt, 1896.
Codify the Best Dreams
Image source: A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope by David Brewster, 1819.
Source: Why is History Read So Little? by Edward Denham, 1876.I Imagined Wholeness Inherent
Source: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments, etc. by Hockin, Wilson & Co; Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1895.
Source: How to be Healthy by J. Halpenny, 1911.
I've Wondered in Dreams
Source: I've Wandered in Dreams: A Favorite Duet by Josesph Augustine Wade Esqr., 1830,
What If Any Changes
Source: 1851-1878 Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Optical, Meteorological and Mathematical Instruments Manufactured and Imported by Goldbacher, 1879.
A Piece of Knowledge
Source: Catalogue of Patent Diamond Diffusive Reflectors and Lamps by Klemm & Company Publication, 1900.
Image source: Catalogue of Apparatus by Daniel Davis, 1852.Can I Recognize New Brilliancy
Image source: Physiology of the Eye, and History of Sight-Restoring Inventions from 1851 to 1873, 1873.
Image source: What is Electricity? by John Trowbridge, 1896.
Source: Library School Rules, Melvil Dewey, 1905.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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