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.A Dream of the Ornamental
Source: Visible Speech, The Science of Universal Alphabets by Alexander Melville Bell, 1867.
The Height of Time
Source: The Clocks of Rondaine, and Other Stories by Frank Richard Stockton, 1892.
Dream Metabolism
Source: Clinical Treatises on the Pathology and Therapy of Disorders of Metabolism and Nutrition by Carl von Noorden, 1905.Image source: Colour by George H. Hurst, 1900.
Red-Hearted Dreamer
Text source: "The Red-Headed Woodpecker a Hoarder" by O. P. Hay, 1887.Image source: A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Health by Wooster Beach, 1847.
Dreams and Intentions Will Wander
Source: "Some Day Your Thoughts Will Wander" by C. Jay Smith, 1908.
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: 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.
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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