February 2024 - Museum of Photocopies

PINS – Rule Twenty-five: Units

Units can be anything. They don’t even need to be real, it’s all explained here. But they have to take orders.

The first photograph of four photographs of photocopied hand-drawn pamphlets, A4 folded using dippen and ink, showing astrological star signs. Sell them to the GULLIBLE in East Lancashire. Don’t tell your dad, but you can make units out of them.

PINS – Rule Twenty-four: The Electoral College

It’s time to describe the people who run things. We think these people are members of something called the Electoral College.

The Electoral College is written on the back of a TERRIER ADJUSTMENT SHEET. This must mean it’s important, especially it’s got typed-out instructions on the front and the College names are written out in copperplate using a dip pen and ink, on the back. Here are some photocopies to help PUT A FACE TO A NAME for your own Electoral College.

The first photograph of four photographs of drawings of a photocopy of a photograph using colour pencils, showing a Polish Pilot called Richard. That is all we know putside of a dedication to the curator’s grandmother in a Polish-English dictionary. Maybe he can join the Electoral College in your game of PINS.

PINS – Rule Twenty-three: The Light Outside

It’s important to know where you can get good light and also where you can sing light comic opera without being laughed at. Both are essential ingredients to PINS. You can find out more here, or peruse the photocopies for clues below.

A photograph of a photocopy of a drawing of a local resident going up past Rising Bridge, Accrington. Them East Lancashire folk can be chippy and independent-minded. Bolshy, even, they laugh at light comic opera. They know about good places where the light is. One place is near the Haworth Art Gallery.

A photograph of a photocopy of a drawing of a local resident going to the butchers in CLayton-le-Moors. Them East Lancashire folk can be chippy and independent-minded. Bolshy, even. They know about good places where the light is. One place is up the street, where the Eric Morecambe memorial plate is.

A photograph of a photocopy of a drawing of a French bloke, from a book lent to the curator by a Liverpool friend who liked a Good Moan, and a North West Area cub scout badge for use on Church Parade, where you can hear all about the Apocalypse. Them East Lancashire folk can be chippy and independent-minded. Bolshy, even. They know about good places where the light is. One place is Cambridge Street, Accrington, or the corner of Queens Road West, where you can see the light on the Coppice.

PINS – Rule Twenty-two: Inner Mapping

PINS can be carried out anywhere. We know that. We think it’s best to do it in your garden. But you can also do it in your head. We don’t know if PINS is true. But that’s not a problem. Sometimes, it’s just what we remember, or imagine. Here are some images to help you imagine what may have happened to you. PINS is not played on any screen. And colour television is not to be trusted. This is the only real rule of PINS.