Hi Gang.
There are currently about 800 posts on the Touchonian. It has really become a remarkable resource. While I write on many topics and I am frequently writing experimental things, the main spine and focus of the Touchonian is the section called Creative Lifestyle.
I am working on the manuscripts for these essays to become a series of books for your studio. I have collected together all of the articles through 2025 and am organizing them into readable catagories, etc.
What I often do is search for past articles by using the search function on the homepage and type in a subject or a keyword I want to read again and the search pops up a list of related articles. I find this very helpful.
When you have time and you have a subject you are wondering about use the search feature to pull up all related articles.
Side Note
I was reorganizing some books on my books shelves and came across a book of poetry from 2012 by Alan Michael Parker for which one of my images PDP #288 created in 2005 was hired for the cover of the book by Tupelo Press.
I just thought I would share that since I am rereading that book.
I also was looking over one of my own wild and crazy poetry books called “In an Agitated Voice” which is Minimalist Visual Poetry. All of the pages are in the same vein as the cover image. It is fasinating to page through and attempt to read it. I used a process I call ‘disemvowelment’. Where I replaced the vowels with other charactors to create a visual texture. It is possible to decode it with enough effort but the original texts that I used were also put through a text randomizer to destroy the original arrangement. In one poem I used ‘The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe as found material and another piece by Anton Chekhov, etc.
Looking at the book this morning I am thinking some of my favorite pages could be blown up into large limited edition prints. That could be cool.
