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.
Source: Catalogue of Folding Chairs by Buckeye Chair Co., c. 1900.
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.
Magpie of Dreams
Image source: "Magpie" from The Birds of America Series for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands, 1888.
Source: Club Life by California Federation of Women's Clubs, 1902.
Source: Cycling! by William Norrie Robertson, 1894.I've Wondered in Dreams
Source: "I've Wandered in Dreams: A Favorite Duet" by Joseph Augustine Wade Esqr., 1830.
Source: Colour in Woven Design by Roberts Beaumont, 1890.Lies I Did Not Intend to Tell
Source: "I Wonder if Ever the Rose" by David Slater, David, composer, 1906.
Full-Throated Agreement
Source: A Series of Anatomical Plates by Jones Quain, Sir Erasmus Wilson, and Joseph Pancoast, 1843.
Consider the Level of Ease
Source: Freehand Perspective and Sketching by Dora Miriam Norton, 1909.
Gallery of Dreams
Source: Highly Important Gallery of Pictures by Christie, Manson & Woods, 1892.
Source: Forget-Me-Nots by Julia Kavanagh, 1878.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.