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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

My zine Kickstarter is live and nearly funded! Sigils, shapes, and symbols drawn on found paper - or what happens when you take a line for a walk. Please share with anyone you think may be interested 😊 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bar...

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Taking photos for a new gallery of work, should wind up on my website by the weekend. #collage

Five black and white found paper collages hanging on a wall above a row of art books.

Five black and white found paper collages hanging on a wall.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Day 02, of "one new collage in the store every day week!" Just ask Wyatt Earp, this one's a keeper. #collage www.postcardsfromberlin.net/store/p/ink-...

framed found paper collage on wooden shelf. salt shaker of Wyatt Earp and brown espresso cup in the foreground.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

d'Adenauer, a new collage. A3 ink drawing of four bottles on five pieces of found paper. Postive & negative. New & old. And looking pretty great in this studio shot, if I may say so myself. www.postcardsfromberlin.net/store/p/aden... But I only have so much space. Feel free to take it off my hands.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Photographing collages for the store today. Six new ones to add, six new collages for your walls 😎

Western-looking sherrif figure and espresso cup

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Another newly-discovered ACC Records LP. #adobefresco

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Three collages from the studio today. Also, Trump is a fascist, a sexual predator, and a proudly ignorant, weak-ass draft dodger.

Found paper collage including old book page and photographs on black paper.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My latest "10 photographs from last month" post is up on my blog. www.postcardsfromberlin.net/blog/april-t... Featured are Berlin, Hamburg, and Brandenburg, a tiny bit of German politics, aggressively bright colors, and a quote from an LLM about "doors without walls".

Fuck the AFD and, while we're at it, the Trump administration which is an unlawful, unconstitutional clusterfuck of racists and total fucking idiots.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Two from the studio today. I‘m really digging this vibe. #collage Also, Trump is a fascist.

Collage with found paper, gesso, found photographs

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

While the US government descends into a fascist horror-state, I finally updated the 2024 gallery of the Museum of Bottle Drawings, the internet's most important resource of drawings of bottles, vases, and other assorted vessels. The current collection consists of 85 drawings, depicting 371 vessels.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A handful of drawings from a trip to a chic trailer park near a lake in rural Germany.

pen drawing of the interior of a trailer cabin

pen drawing of a fireplace with shoes, wood bucket, and tools

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A few more of these. I’m planning a zine for later this spring with around 30 of these plus some lists of ten things about them.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Looks like the video is cropped. C'est la vie. I've been messing around in Rive during a pause between freelance projects and built a handful of hover interactions. No idea where this'll go, but it's quite fun messing around with a new tool without a very clear goal.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Still working away at this project. What do the sigils, icons, and symbols mean? Who can say…

Icons, sigils and symbols on found paper

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Up on my blog today, an image-heavy post showing off a book I found at a used bookstore last week. I cannot wait to start using these in collages. www.postcardsfromberlin.net/blog/wit-stw...

Page spread of carved wooden hands and feet.

Page spread of carved wooden hands holding books (probably bibles).

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Some work from the studio today.

Black ink drawings on found paper with gesso

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Up on blog today, two new posts, my favorite photos from January and February (late, but fresh). www.postcardsfromberlin.net/blog

Snowy inner courtyard with trees and bikes

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In the collage studio, not really making collages.

Iconography of an antlered insect god. Ink Drawing on paper.

Ink drawing on old book page. Key. Eye. Orb.

Ink drawing on old book page. Skeleton key and eye.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My default answer to „what’s your favorite movie“ was always „The Conversation“.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It’s been slow going in the #collage studio due to a big freelance animation project, but I’m getting back to it.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The visual metaphor isn’t perfect, but it’ll do.

A drawing of two bottles and two glasses

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Once my renders are done, the big coffee mug will be full.

A drawing of an espresso cup, coffee mug, milk pitcher

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Okay few hours in the studio today. I’ve been away for a bit & took a while to warm up. I’d planned on making three small collages, but these two will have to do. #collage

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Noch eine aus der #csu #demo in #berlin "Steigbügelhalter sind Arschlöcher" or "Lackys (lickspittles, toadies, bootlickers) are assholes".

Outside the CDU party building. Nighttime.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

CDU Wahlplakat underfoot. Taken during the #demo Thursday evening.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Going through my todo list for the rest of the day.

Watercolor and pencil sketch of a torso filled with spheres with lettering

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I‘m taking an online sketchbook course with @ehaidle.bsky.social and one of the assignments involved making a sigil based off a word. I picked „Glück“, liked one of my sketches & decided to animate it while other work was rendering 😎

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Yesterday I took myself for a walk by Tegeler See with camera and audiobook. It was chilly and moody, and well worth the time on the Bahn to get there & back again.

B/W photograph of a foggy lake framed by dark trees.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It's not just 2024 that's over, but December - which means it's time for my ten favorite photographs of the month. December features Berlin and rural Poland and only the smallest hints of sunshine :) Full set of ten are on my blog, link below.

abandoned mattress in Berlin, "i love you"

empty train station in poland, night time

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

From a couple days ago in the collage studio. The three hanging vertically are in the „wrong“ order but that’s okay for now. Feel free to let me know what you think is the proper order 😎

6 @ Two panel collage, old paper, gesso, old photographs

Two panel collage, old paper, gesso, old photographs

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Today‘s view from the collage studio

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Two new collages from today plus an „action shot“ from last week.  I‘m really enjoying these gesso windows I painted and then cut out a few months back (last year?). I have a few more ready to go and it’ll be fun to see what happens.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

On a recent trip back the US and then back to Berlin again I spent a little time airport sketching, one of my favorite activities. I posted a handful of sketches paired with a quote from Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (great book, btw). Enjoy. www.postcardsfromberlin.net/flights

pen drawing of a person in an airport, text on the page

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

I just shared a write-up of a collage & AI experiment I worked on recently, where I combined my collages with Midjourney descriptions of them. Full post is here: www.postcardsfromberlin.net/ai-collage-p...

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

For my first blog post of the new year, I shared my ten favorite photos from December, 2023. "Best photos"? Probably, not, but my favorite. www.postcardsfromberlin.net/blog/wt7d3cai4r61pe8ep3vzq8ki40jple

A black and white cat named Dracula in a brown paper bag

A green chair next to a yellow shopping cart on the sidewalk in Berlin, Germany.

A muddy dirt road though the forest in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Found this series while inventorying the studio today. Aside from needing mattes without cat chew marks, I’m pretty into it.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

New newsletter went out today with links, one (only one) cat photograph, and a newsletter-only discount code for my collage work. It's a good one this month! oarfish-elephant-5hbw.squarespace.com/campaigns/vi...

a goofy black and white cat with its tongue out

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Had no plans to go to the studio today but a couple conversations with clever friends gave me some fresh ideas.

Found paper collage with face and old letter

Found paper collage with black & white foto

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

New collage series. Not bad, but there are definitely differing levels of success, imho. I’ll let them sit for a few days & see what I think.

Five paper collages hanging on a white wall.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Today marks 5 years in Berlin: a strange, often broken, already-changed, surprisingly-welcoming, sunny, gray, depressing, life-affirming, confusing, liberating, challenging city. Zum Wohl Berlin!

black and white photograph of an angular building near a canal.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Hi there. I‘m a Berlin-based collage artist.

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

I arrived in the studio this morning & gave myself the challenge of making a series of collages with only 3 elements each. I'll let these sit for a bit, but overall I'm pretty pleased. In the sake of honesty, I should mention that one of these uses four elements. Ooops.

six found paper collages hanging on an off-white wall

abstract collage, photograph, paint & typography

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Hey friends, I just added new collage work to my store, and for one week it's a "secret sale". Twelve collages total, all offered at a lower price than they'll be in the main store. Have a look, share if you're so inclined, and thanks all :) www.postcardsfromberlin.net/presale-secr...

found paper collage, framed, next to a red mug and a pair of scissors

found paper collage, framed, in front of two books

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

I recently stumbled across Nigel Poor's San Quentin Project, and was blown away. While I wait for a copy of the book, I sat with a few of my collages and wrote a list of ten observations for each one. nigelpoor.com/project/san-... www.postcardsfromberlin.net/blog/observa...

a framed collage sitting next to some stacked books

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Barrymcw @barrymcw.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Hello! Do we do "introduction posts" on Bluesky? If so, I'm a collage and paper artist in Berlin. I'm less and less active on Mastodon, still hanging about on IG, excited to see how Bluesky develops. Expect collage pictures, some cats, and random links.

Found paper collage next to red mug with pens & pencils

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