10/30/22 10/30/22

Night Sight

Source text: A Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature by Robert Mudie, 1832

10/26/22 10/26/22

Consider the Exertions

This piece can be considered a Convenience OR an Inconvenience, depending upon the intent with which it is used.

10/23/22 10/23/22

Mansion O'Dreams

Source image: A Design for a Governor's Mansion by Alvin Truesdell Tumbleson, 1910

10/19/22 10/19/22

Inconvenience: All Shames

Source Image: Poisonous, Noxious and Suspected Plants of Our Fields and Woods by Anne Pratt, 1866.

10/16/22 10/16/22

How, When, and Where to Sow Dream Seeds

Source text: Ninth Annual Catalogue of Vegetable, Agricultural, and Flower Seeds, by Geo. S. Haskell & Co; 1872.

10/12/22 10/12/22

Plainly Show the Wound

Here is another example of a Convenience in Primitive-School style. Source: Farm Conveniences, by Byron David Halsted, 1884.

10/5/22 10/5/22

Thousands of Night Thoughts and Dreams

Image source: Das Sonnen-System, by Adam Christian Gaspari, Franz Ludwig Gussefeld, F.L. Guessefeld, C. Westermayr, 1801.

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Peculiarities of the Inconvenience

Image and text source: The Opium Habit and Alcoholism by Frank Hubbard, 1881.

9/25/22 9/25/22

Some Old Dreams

Source text: Some Old Egyptian Librarians by Ernest Cushing Richardson, 1911.

9/21/22 9/21/22

Dream 9 Errata

Image source: Machine Embroidery Hand-book, Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 1886.

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Domestic Dream Work 1

Source text: Machine Embroidery Hand-book, Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 1886.

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Hand Book No. 44

Image source: Popular Pastimes for Amusement and Instruction, Henry Davenport Northrop, 1901.

9/11/22 9/11/22

Random Dreaming 1

Image source: Popular Pastimes for Amusement and Instruction, Henry Davenport Northrop, 1901.

9/7/22 9/7/22

Inconvenience: Weapons of Nightmares 1

Source text: The Fan in All Ages by Grolier Club, 1891.

9/4/22 9/4/22

Dream Direction

Image from Comparative Osteology by Joseph Maclise, 1847.

8/31/22 8/31/22

What is Genre Dreaming?

Source text: The Masters of Genre Painting by Sir Frederick Wedmore, 1880.

8/28/22 8/28/22

Dream Nostalgia

Original Text: Rainfall, Flow of Streams and Storage by Desmond Fitzgerald, Desmond, 1892

8/24/22 8/24/22

Flow of Dreams from Possibility

Original Text: Flow of Steam from Nozzles by John Perry, 1903.

8/21/22 8/21/22

Sifted Dream Seeds

Source: How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Fullerton, 1905.

8/17/22 8/17/22

Proposal for Dream Research

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.