Welcome to Cottonwood Springs, a fictional,
pre-1912 cosmology.
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archive of field art.
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Consider the Level of Ease
Source: Freehand Perspective and Sketching by Dora Miriam Norton, 1909.
Lesson in the Tapestry of Dreams
A Lesson in the Tapestry of Dreams
by Eminent Women
Accompany us for a lesson in design to be held
in the space over the plush vision which is
narrower at the bottom and level
with the edge of thought.
Source: A Lesson in Tapestry Painting by Emma Haywood, 1889.
Gallery of Dreams
Source: Highly Important Gallery of Pictures by Christie, Manson & Woods, 1892.
Source: Combination Paint by William Waterall Co., 1881.The Dream Stalls
Round and About the Dream-Stalls
Speculation about the contents of the stalls is a worthless ambition.
The "value" of a stall lies over the workaday threshold
into the realm of curiosity.
Source: Round and About the Book-Stalls. : A Guide for the Book-Hunter by John Herbert Slater and Benno Loewy, 1891.
Source: Part of a Man's Life by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.
Source: Forget-Me-Nots by Julia Kavanagh, 1878.
Source: American Journal of Nursing Publication, 1908-05.
Source: Mary and I go to Europe by H. Lyle Smith, 1898.
Source: American Journal of Nursing Publication, 1908-05.
Source: American Entomology by Thomas Say, 1859.
Source: Come to Me by Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, 1897.Dream Debate Topic - Fighting Change
Source: The Fighting Chance, by Robert W. Chambers, 1906.
Shifting Dream Perceptions
Source: The Physiology of the Senses by John Gray McKendrick and William Snodgrass, 1893.
Understand Dream Through Image
Source: A Popular Treatise on the Winds by William Ferrel 1889.
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.This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
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