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FS4269ct24 - 6 x 4.5 inches - collage on paper - Cecil Touchon - Cuernavaca Papers

The Touchonian

Hello internet traveler, I would just like to mention that where I am now posting on a daily basis is on my substack page called The Touchonian at touchonian.com Please click over to that page…

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August 9, 2024

Press / Writings

When did Cecil Touchon Die?

When doing a search for 'Cecil Touchon' on google I noticed that one of the suggested search terms from google is "when did Cecil Touchon die?". Being Cecil Touchon who, as far as I can…

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October 1, 2019

Read more about the article Light and Shadow

Andrea Verrocchio - Head of a Woman drawing, British Museum

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Light and Shadow

The use of both space and light are, for me, primarily theoretical and utilitarian as mentioned above so I am not too concerned with realism or accuracy or, for that matter, consistency.

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June 17, 2018

Read more about the article Silent Witnesses for Péter Forgács – [collage poetry]

Vintage Photograph - Ontological Museum collection

Collage Poetry Archive / Writings

Silent Witnesses for Péter Forgács – [collage poetry]

...and I saw the scissors. at the edge of the unthinkable giving a certain emotional meaning which never existed before and it’s very hard to feel how long an image should last and put it together in [the] mind.

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June 16, 2018

Read more about the article Monsters in Trousers – [collage poetry]

Vintage black and white photograph - Ontological Museum collection inventory # om.2016.047

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Monsters in Trousers – [collage poetry]

Concepts are monsters that are born out of their ruins. Monsters in trousers baggy and grey, never pursuing anything beyond their own ends.

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June 16, 2018

Quiet Mind, Clear Heart.

OK, I already said everything that needs saying: quiet mind, clear heart. If you think of that as an over arching goal in life you can spend most hours of most days working on it. I have a bit of an advantage at this point because I am getting to be an old guy and […]

The Touchonian

Hello internet traveler, I would just like to mention that where I am now posting on a daily basis is on my substack page called The Touchonian at touchonian.com Please click over to that page and subscribe to get my posts to your email address. I got tired of maintaining all of my websites so […]

IT HAS BEEN A WHILE!

Here it is the 4th quarter of 2023. I basically have not posted anything since the beginning of the pandemic. The pandemic definitely changed my rhythm in a big way. I think I am starting to finally get back to normal. Though I have had all of my covid shots I still got covid 19 […]

Asemics.org Asemic Writing Art by Cecil Touchon

I have just finished a new website dedicated to the drawings in my series of books Listening with the Eye. These works are now being offered for sale directly from the studio. Check out ASEMICS.ORG

New Painting in the studio

Post Dogmatist Painting #1105 – 2020 – 60 x 84 inches – acrylic over paper on canvas In the case of many professional artists, many are worried that this pandemic is causing widespread mayhem on the economy and are frustrated with the lackluster response by the administration to deal with this situation thus dragging out […]

TOUCHON PAINTINGS AT PALM BEACH MODERN + CONTEMPORARY 2020

Cecil Touchon Asemic Works on Display in Geneva, Switzerland

Scrivere Disegnando (“Writing by Drawing”) is an exhibition about writing and its shadow side. Its aim is to look back over a number of practices, from the early twentieth century to the present day, in which writing leaves the function of communication behind and moves into the sphere of the illegible and unspeakable. It sets out […]