Welcome to Cottonwood Springs, a fictional,
pre-1912 cosmology.
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archive of field art.
To observe the physical labor, process, footnotes, and endnotes behind these intercepts, consult Examine the Evidence in the menu.
How to Make Them Lament
Source: Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
Common Torments
Source: The Commercial Forest Trees of Massachusetts by Daniel Allen Clarke, 1908.
The Art of Tying Craving to the Personal
Source: The Art of Tying the Cravat by H. Le Blanc, 1828.
Where are your dreams?
Source: Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal R.R. by Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad, 1910.
Source: Jealousy by Marion W. Wildrick, 1889,Dreaming in Women
Source: A Digest of Metabolism Experiments in which the Balance of Income and Outgo was Determinedby Charles Ford Langworthy, 1898.
Dreams Carried on a Ghost Ship
Image source: The Mirage by DePauw University, 1886.Letter A source: The Celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death, 1856.
Find the Hidden Parts of Night-Time Dreams
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.
Complete Your Dream
Source: Secrets of the Great Mysteries Now Revealed for the First Time by "Oudini", 1909.
Source: Invitation to a Dance, 1891.
Image source: The Brain and Its Diseases by Thomas Stretch Dowse, 1880.
Contaminated Reveries
Source: Catalogue of Fancy, Plush and Carpet Rockers, by H.C. Dexter Chair Co., 1889.
Source: Ice Cream Trade Journal, 1905.
Text source: The Treatment of Opium Addiction by J.B. Mattison, 1885.
Source: Corrigenda by W. A. Leighton, 1868.
Source: Inexpensive Changes by Annie Isabel Willis, 1891.This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
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