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.
Source: The Railway Transition Spiral by A. N. Talbot, 1901.
Imagination as a Shield
Source Text: Osmotic Pressure of Solutions of Cane-Sugar by William Lee Kennon, 1906.
Warning to Practitioners
Source Text: Methods of Sampling Cream for Testing and Their Relation to Creamery Practice, Nelson William Hepburn, 1910.
Dreamers Gravitate to the Shores of the Imagination
Source: Haunts of Collectors, 1883, The Art Amateur.
Adulteration of Dreams 1
Source text: A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons by Friedrich Christian Accum, 1820.
Stained Dreams District Council
Annual Report of The Medical Officer of Health, The Urban District Council of Staines, 1906.
Delusional-Dream Disease
The writer of this Convenience tells her readers that delusional thinking is inherent in being human, that it is a persistent state, and that many people are frequently trying different methods to rid themselves of their delusions.
Source text: The Potato Disease by Royal College of Surgeons of England, publication date 1845.
Excess Baggage Costs
Excess Baggage Costs
Anxiety and undue mental exercise are not carried free on the path o' dreams,
but are experienced as problematic excess baggage—
whether the dreamer has other beneficial luggage or not.
It is not an impossible journey,
for which of us has not known melancholy?
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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