cort hartle

philly area artist // zine maker // diy archivist corthartle.cargo.site substratezine.cargo.site

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root-bound, acrylic on canvas

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Issue 08 of Substrate is here. Rejoice! Access the digital version here:

SUBSTRATE

Substrate is a quarterly anthology zine that asks artists and writers of all kinds to consider what a better world might look like

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so far still to go

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late long shadows, 2026

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submit to the spring issue of substrate by 4/30. free to submit, free to read, always and forever. more info:

Substrate is a quarterly anthology zine that asks artists and writers of all kinds to consider what a better world might look like

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one week left to submit to issue 08!!

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bet you didn’t. I hope

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a pair of custom horseshoe crab pendants i made for a lovely repeat customer who does volunteer work monitoring their population in florida! 🌊 these are one-offs but i’ll be adapting this design into earrings sometime soon 💙

etsy // kofi

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any day now

the sky’s gonna open,

pour out

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new sketchbook has been good to me

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bycatch - cort hartle

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submit to the spring issue of substrate by 4/30. free to submit, free to read, always and forever. more info:

Substrate is a quarterly anthology zine that asks artists and writers of all kinds to consider what a better world might look like

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Issue 07 of Substrate has arrived bawling and beautiful into the world! Full of bodily possibility and wintry mix, it’s available to read on the website

Substrate is a quarterly anthology zine that asks artists and writers of all kinds to consider what a better world might look like

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first: barefoot running through the yard/then: abrupt yelp, stagger backwards/first: bring bitterness to a rolling boil/then: the ache will fade from inside out

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all things reaching towards each other

against all empire past present future

history moves in one direction:

nearer to the center

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heavy enough to hold