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: Errata, The American Naturalist, 1883.
Source: Catalogue of Folding Chairs by Buckeye Chair Co., c. 1900.Carefully Seed Curiosity
Source: Carefully Grown Cured Tested Seeds by Frank Ford & Son, 1898.
Source: Catalogue of Folding Chairs by Buckeye Chair Co., c. 1900.Accused of Amending Dreams
Source: A List of Palimpsest Brasses in Great Britain by Mill Stephenson, 1903.
Image source: [Catalog of rug patterns] by E. Ross & Co., 1891.Studies in Design
Image source: A Description of the Roman Tessellated Pavement Found in Bucklersbury by John Edward Price, 1870.
Redesign of Dreams
Source: The Redesign of a Series of Concrete Material Washers by Richard Walter Leutwiler, 1911.
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.Jewelry Assemblage - Vintage Watch Faces
Jewelry Assemblage - Vintage Watch Faces
Each watch face records the birth time of someone important to me.
A Dreamer May Know Periodicity
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.
Source: Perchance to Dream by by Margaret Sutton Briscoe, 1893.Disturbing the Public Mind
Source: Valuable Assemblage Chiefly of Italian Pictures by Christie, Manson & Woods, 1815.
Source: Materials for Permanent Painting by Maximilian Toch, 1911.
Magpie of Dreams
Image source: "Magpie" from The Birds of America Series for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands, 1888.
Cover - 2025 Journal
I'm going to use junk mail envelopes to construct a series of art journals for this year, a technique I learned from @journaling_moore on TikTok.Here's the cover for my 2025 journal:
Source: Club Life by California Federation of Women's Clubs, 1902.
Source: Cycling! by William Norrie Robertson, 1894.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.
Come back next week to see more ephemera.