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Paul Hearn

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collagist & bricoleur 🗡️ rudimentary bookworks 🏺 flimsy pages 🔮 cruddy archives ⚖️ papery

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · Jan 12

Homemade filing systems

#diy #archive #makedo #thethriftycollagist

A stack of papers collected together in a modified shoebox held together by red cord fastened around two split pins

A stack of papers collected together in a see-through plastic folder fastened to an old Ordinance Survey map wrap, tied with thin blue cord

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 2h

André Breton's Studio, 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris

www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/ol...

B/W photograph of André Breton’s studio, May 1960 by Sabine Weiss; extensive collection of artworks displayed

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 1d

#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #juxtaposed

Paper cut from title page of a book that reads “Dutch Painting“ pasted around a murky picture of people sifting through debris in a street that has recently been flooded

Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 1d

Totnes tiles

Cracked exterior tiles illustrated with forest scene

Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 1d

Carry bolt cutters everywhere

Werner Herzog Offers 24 Pieces of Filmmaking & Life Advice

Image by Erinc Salor via Wikimedia Commons There are few filmmakers alive today who have the mystique of Werner Herzog. His feature films and his documentaries are brilliant and messy, depicting both ...

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 2d

From 'rotatory', 1993. 24 whole-page illustrations cut into equal parts and reassembled as new pictures. The collages all include one part from each in its original position.

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 3d

#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #roughcut #flimsy

Cuttings pasted to grey paper; an engraving of a man on his deathbed above a partial image of a woman with anguished expression and gesticulating arms raised; the missing part cut-out resembles a mountain

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 6d

#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #minimal #chancedupon #abstract #impasse

Board frame with roughly sliced irregular pentagon window revealing battered metallic card

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 5d

W. Heath Robinson’s illustration for Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, published by Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1st edition, 1913.

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Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Tag der Deutschen Einheit from everyone’s favourite anthropomorphic beer.

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 6d

Dan Graham, Rock My Religion 1984

Rock My Religion _ Dan Graham-SD

Rock My Religion is a provocative video essay on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture.

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 6d

#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #minimal #chancedupon #abstract #impasse

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 6d

#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #minimal #chancedupon

Section of greyboard with discarded fragment depicting Ingrid Bergman pasted in the bottom lefthand corner

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 1

repairman's revenge, type-in listing, excerpt (1983) archive.org/details/cavg...

code
within the code, text:
well done. please enter your name
(not more than 20 characters)
(a lofi image of the title font/title screen with the sad face of a repairman)
do you need instructions?(type y or n)
**repairmans revenge**
sequel to **short circuit**
your mission is to transfer bits of energy from the serial input (energy wall) to the output of the chip
the higher the output port touched when the repairman is charged with energy then the higher score you can gain. but beware, a mutant sparx is on the loose. avoid it at all costs.
it can be destroyed by shooting bolts of energy at it. you posess enough energy to kill 5 sparxs. the energy bolts can only fire in one direction. you only have one life.......
the controls are 7(up arrow), i(left arrow), j(down arrow), y(left arrow)
cr to fire......good luck.....
press (s) to start

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DevonChurchLand @devonchurchland.bsky.social · 10d

Some C17 folderol from a memorial

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 10d

ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN ONE HOUSE
internationaltimes.it/one-hundred-...
David Erdos

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 12d

SUBTERRANEANS II by Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social

New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

burninghousepress.com/2025/09/26/s...

Subterraneans ii by Paul Hearn

Part-time collagist and amateur bricoleur, Paul has always been infatuated with pop music and comics. Bluesky @paulxhearn.bsky.social

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 13d

The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists’ books Volume 20 No 1, Autumn – Winter 2025 is now ready for free download at:
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue-notebook/
Articles by Corina Reynolds, Abigail Reynolds, Ruth Hallinan, Christine (Cheng) Dong and Eliza Strong. Featured artist: Yunqi Peng.

Cover image: Yunqi Peng - a picture of a book with strips of coloured papers like bookmarks printed with text arranged inside it.

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 15d

Tracey Emin: Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995

This is "Tracey Emin: Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995" by MOCA North Miami on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 17d

Autumnal blessings from the riverside walk this morning #equinox

Misty riverside path; a puddle on the muddy track

Ferns and lush undergrowth along a riverbank

Dawn tinting the trees. Stepping stones across a shallow river

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Rodger Binyone @rodger-binyone.bsky.social · 17d

Brick-A-Brack
detail screenprint

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 18d

Geology rocks

Solitary rock in Exeter Cathedral precinct

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 18d

Cut away 1/3 of Metod cabinet to make it fit a bonkers space

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OLAMBRILLAS @olambrillas.bsky.social · 18d

Collage #1253
Títere

Collage de recortes de papel con voluntad antropomórfica.
©️ Cristian Berga

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 18d

Bathing in the glow of an IKEA hack that worked

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Studio Andrew Seto @studioaseto.bsky.social · 19d

🔲 | 19.09.25

charcoal, collage on planner paper, 21 x 16.5cm

© Andrew Seto, 2025

#drawing #research #andrewseto #bathos #materiality #queerpoeticgaze #imperfectsublime #badehaus #bathhouse #griddujour #inquiry #practice

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