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.
Medals and Diplomas at the Visionary's Fair
Source: Standard Tool Co.'s Twist Drills, Reamers, Taps, Spring Cotters, Flat and Riveted Keys Catalogue, 1895.
Image source: Summer Nights Carnival of the Oriole Program, 1883.Dream Pattern No. 20
Image source: Manuscript Notes on Weaving by James Holmes and James Holmes, Jr., 1900.
Are You Willing to Allow the Footsteps
Image source: Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise, 1851.
Dreams Fly in the Night
Source: Illustrations of British Blood-Sucking Flies by British Museum; Ernest Edward Austen, 1906.
Source: Picturesque Lodges by John Birch, 1879.Dream Institute
Source: An Illustrated Manual of Popular Dental Instruction, Aldine Printing House, 1894.
Source: New York Shopping Guide, 1870.
Source: New York Shopping Guide, 1870.A Summer's Diversion
Source: Catalogue of a Valuable Assemblage of Ancient and Modern Coins and Medals by Sotheby, S. Leigh & Co., 1849.
Dream Journey Artisans
Source: The Case of the Journeymen Bakers by William Augustus Guy, 1865.
The Moving Parts of Dream Machines
Image source: Cotton Spinning by American School of Correspondence, 1909.
Image source: New York Shopping Guide, 1909.Dream-Printing Machine
Image source: Cotton Yarn Printing by Cassella Color Company, 1910.
Image source: Brain Surgery by Moses Allen Starr, 1893.
Image source: Whirlpools by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1910.Dreams of Your Earliest Years
Image Source: Children's Toys by Twynihoe William Erle, 1877.
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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