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.Can Eye See
Sources: What Can I See? by New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, 1894. The Eye by Angus Macmillan, 1864.
How to See Creative Bounty
Source: How to See Boston : A Trust Worthy Guide-Book by Grand Army of the Republic, 1890.
I've Wondered in Dreams
Source: "I've Wandered in Dreams: A Favorite Duet" by Joseph Augustine Wade Esqr., 1830.
Source: The Psychology of Attention by Théodule Ribot, 1890.
Source: School Gardening for Little Children by Lucy R. Latter, 1906.The Fun in Your Labor
The fun in your labor
will make you realize the beauties delivered by dreaming
Source: Robert Evans & Co. Seed Catalogue, 1899.
Change of Ambition
Source: Change of Air, or, The Philosophy of Travelling by James Johnson, 1831.
Source: Remarks on Delirium Tremens by Charles Stuart Tripler, 1827.Multiple Dreams
Source: Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art by J. G. Heck, 1851.
Balancing Squalid Experiences
Source: Playground Technique and Playcraft, ed. Arthur Leland and Lorna Higbee Leland, 1910.
Chimera Prosecution
Source: Encyclopedia of Evidence, ed Edgar W. Camp and John F. Crowe, 1905.
Source: Garden Frames, Hitchings and Company, 1911.
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.Purity at Play
Convenience 117
The memory of dreams assumes intensity,
and it is certain that between love and tumult
there is always purity at play.
Source: The Psychology of Attention by Th. Ribot, 1890.
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.