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.
Dream in Rhyme
Image source: In Russet Mantle Clad : Scenes of Rural Life by George Morley, 1897.
The Natural Purification of Dreams
Source: Natural Purification of Streams by Edwin O. Jordan, 1906.
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.
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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