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.
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.Locus of Dream Infection
Source: The Human Mouth as a Focus of Infection by Willoughby Dayton Miller, 1891.
Spiritual Irritation
Source: Remarks on Spinal Irritation by by Hugh Talbot Patrick, 1897.
How to Take Care of Dreams
Source: Our Eyes, and How to Take Care of Them by Henry Willard Williams, 1871.
Image source: The Confessional by Robert James Culverwell, 1841.Memory and Imagination
Memory and Imagination
A sensitive and imaginative mind frequently sees the phantoms during sleep.
Memory and Imagination active something more:
the brightness and distinction of reality.
Text source: Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind Upon the Body in Health and Disease by Daniel Hack Tuke, 1884.Image source: The Principles of Light and Color by Edwin D. Babbitt, 1896.
Codify the Best Dreams
Image source: A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope by David Brewster, 1819.
Source: How I Got My Education by John Rhodes Speck, 1884. Inconvenience - My First Fabrications
Source: My First Book, Named Otherwise: Lispings, Yearnings and Mutterings by Levi Belcher, 1873.
Source: Why is History Read So Little? by Edward Denham, 1876.I Imagined Wholeness Inherent
Source: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments, etc. by Hockin, Wilson & Co; Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1895.
Source: How to be Healthy by J. Halpenny, 1911.
Source: Spraying Crops Why, When, and How by Clarence M. Weed, 1907.This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
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