Half-Terrors Process
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image source: Studies in Cell-Division by Douglas H. Campbell, 1890.
Intellectual Myopia
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image source: A Popular Description of the Human Eye by William Whalley, 1874.
Collate My Dreams
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Footnotes to Canadian Folksongs by William Wood, 1896.
Composite Portrait of my Illusions
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Composite Photography Applied to the Portraits of Shakespeare by Walter Rogers Furness, 1885.
Desert and Prairie Fire
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Sources: The Red Desert of Wyoming and its Forage Resources by Aven Nelson, 1898 and “Wonderland Fighting The Flames” Postcard by Wonderland Amusement Park (Massachusetts), 1907.
Hinges Between Worlds
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Screen Door Fixin's: Columbian All-Steel Screen Door Spring Hinge by Columbian Hardware Co., 1907.
Reread the First Half
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: The Howe System of Teaching Reading: The Word, 1910.
I See Your Ghost
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Source: Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art by J. G. Heck, 1852.
Dream Thresholds
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
My Nightmares Told Me
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: The Only Known Negative Metal by Frederick R. Tibbitts, 1899.
The Mythology of My Dreams
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Tales About the Mythology of Greece and Rome by Peter Parley, 1839.
The More Important Dream
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Sources: Dinner menu: S.S. City of Paris, 30th July, 1889. by Inman Line,
U.S.M.S. "St. Paul," February 2, 1900, breakfast menu.
The Wildest Dreams
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Source: The Intersection of Circles and the Intersection of Spheres by Benjamin Alvord, 1882.
Allow Everything to be Grist
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Source: The Art of Perfumery and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of Plants by Charles Henry Piesse, 1891.
Why Do I Envy
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Two New Worlds by Fournier D’ Albe, 1907.
The Height of Time
Source: The Clocks of Rondaine, and Other Stories by Frank Richard Stockton, 1892.
Source: Catalogue of Folding Chairs by Buckeye Chair Co., c. 1900.Suggestions for Night Travelers No. 4
Source: Alaska, 1911 : with Arthur Cleveland Bent to gather data on the economic status and geographic distribution of birds and mammals; Included is correspondence, an expense book, maps, reports on the investigations, and photographs by Alexander Wetmore, 1911.
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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