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Paul Hearn
@paulxhearn.bsky.social
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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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Malcom X, Sun, Frederick Douglass, Boy with Bubbles by Glenn Ligon, 2001
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137791
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, The Bohen Foundation, 2001 © Glenn Ligon
February 8, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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Penitent Self Portrait, interior

#collage #collageart #handcut #dreamdiary
Violet paper with jagged abstract fragments and magazine cuttings
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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Zilla Leutenegger, Coconut Cat, 2024
February 8, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Diary 07.02.2026
February 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Procreate painting of abstract narrow alley with green stripes
February 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Zhǐ zhá is the ancient Han Chinese custom of making paper offerings to be burned during funerals, festivals and ancestral worship rituals

www.worldofinteriors.com/story/zhi-zh...
Yang lights a traditional zhǐ zhá paper house in the studio
February 7, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Penitent Self Portrait, interior

#collage #collageart #handcut #dreamdiary
Violet paper with jagged abstract fragments and magazine cuttings
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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Bernard Parmegiani. Exercisme 3, 1986
February 5, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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History

#collage #handcut #papercollage
Collage on wood panel; cut image of classical architecture with added spots of bright coloured paper to make a cartoon face
February 1, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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Celebrating the birthday of that extraordinary inventor of repetitions (and translator of Joubert, Mallarme, Blanchot) named Paul Auster — as one does. Again. Annually.
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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Card from 'Make Your Own Puppets'. Papier mache head of a circus ringmaster with a red coat, black top hat, black sideburns and a cig in his gob
February 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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History

#collage #handcut #papercollage
Collage on wood panel; cut image of classical architecture with added spots of bright coloured paper to make a cartoon face
February 1, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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Open Studio Dress Up Party by Eliot Gordon, 2010
archived by Calee

A flyer for an open studio dress-up party at the Sexton Building in Minneapolis.

#PeoplesGDArchive
#GDHistory
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Full Moon (disco)

#collage #handcut #papercollage #psb
Magazine page advert for Pet Shop Boys remix album “Disco” mounted on greyboard with applied shiny round cheese wrapper and collaged images of abstract structural elements
January 23, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Pac Man contests were a huge thing in 1982. It’s crazy with nostalgia running pop culture that Pac Man hasn’t had a huge resurgence (Sacremento Bee, 5/21/82)
January 30, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Stereolab - French Disko (Live on The Word)
YouTube video by Stereolab
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Destiny is a Rose
Kerry James Marshall

Eileen Harris Norton collection
Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles
www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth...
Painterly black silhouette portrait against emerald green background, surrounded by light-coloured border with painterly pink & blue roses and black thorned stringlike stems
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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computer art, antic, magazine (1984) archive.org/details/1984...
top down, two hands on an atari keyboard, above is a pink flower, blossoming and green leaves attached. it looks like these graphics are travelling through space or time. surrounding this is patterns of colours (pink/red and white).
January 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Memento mori

#collage #papercollage #bricolage #woodensculpture
Black and white cutting of Ruth Asawa and other abstract clippings pasted onto a partially painted block of wood; the collage arrangement vaguely resembles a skull-like face
July 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Low quality black and white print from magazine; performer dressed in white holding microphone, caught mid dance move. Features of face are distorted by the halftone printing; eyes appear to be glowing
January 27, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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déjà vu
[Peacock and Peacock Butterfly by Archibald Thorburn]
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Dutch ballet dancer Marina Franca posing in a peacock costume in April 1941 - photo by Weegee
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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White snow on the Severn wharves
January 26, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Idle, I have doubts numerous
as moonbeams.

Li Qingzhao
trans. Wendy Chen
January 25, 2026 at 9:39 AM