Although Ficus Strangulensis' transmorfactions appear to be handwritten, they are created with a computer. This image was created for the Avant Garde Two symposium and exhibition held at Ohio State University (2002). The Sackners attended and Marvin Sackner delivered the keynote speech. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These photocopied loose sheets were taken from a slide presentation given by Strangulensis at the Avant Garde Two symposium and exhibition held at Ohio State University (2002). The images are divide into 1) Cutups - visual poems with texts cut from magazines or books placed on varied visual backgrounds, 2) Haiku Cutups - visual poems with text cut from magazines or books to form a Haiku which in turn are placed on visual backgrounds, 3) Blends - transmorfations, 4) Spirography Blend - transmorfations created with spirography, 5) Collage Poems - concrete and visual poems created from found texts, 6) Spoliations -deliberate document destruction, i.e., poems created by ripping a page, and 7) Word Construct - concrete poem in which the arrangement of the words and the words themselves suggest another word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page depicts a handwritten column of words or wordlike forms which shows progressive alteration from a primary word to a new one or an image. Examples include among others 1) young - void, 2) falls - mist, 3) ripe - shoe, 4) seed - image of a tree. This has been termed "transmorfation" by Ficus Strangulensis and has also been utilized by other poets, notably Crag Hill, jw curry, and Geof Huth. The transmorfations are composed in a computer and laser printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hat is stored with its predecessor publication, "VAN." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page depicts a handwritten column of words or wordlike forms (composed in a computer) which shows progressive alteration from a primary word to a new one or an image. Examples include among others 1) be to blank 2) know to no 3) void to form 4) a hammer to a nail.This has been termed "transmorfation" by Ficus Strangulensis and has also been utilized by other poets, notably Crag Hill, jw curry, and Geof Huth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In these transmorfations, Strangulensis presents progressions of single written words as well as those of solely geometric figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.