The artist Athena Tacha has been publishing “pocket booklets” since 1972. These small, accordion-folded pamphlets contain intimate autobiographical writings, texts that deal with minute aspects of the artist’s everyday life: meditations on fears, habits, pleasures, aging, cleanliness, loneliness, vulnerability, and more. They are printed in black on various colored papers.

This is a set of all of the pocket booklets Tacha has produced to date. The 27 titles in the set are:

Different Notions of Cleanliness, 1972 The Way My Mind Works, 1972–3 My Mother: A Psychological Portrait, 1973 The Process of Aging (Fragment of an on-going thorough self-analysis and description to be copmleted by the end of my life), 1974 Tragic Cats, 1974–5 My Adolescent Loves, 1974–6 Little Pleasures, 1978–80 My Fears, 1979–80 Little Habits, 1980 Reaching Fifty: The Process of Aging, II, 1986–87 Identity (Dissection of a Specimen), 1990–1 Vulnerability, 1981–93 Love, 1983–93 Turning Sixty-Five: The Process of Aging, III, 2001 My Childhood Garden (Visual Memory Excavation #1), 2001 My Childhood Home (Visual Memory Excavation #2), 2001 My Youthful Photo-Album (Visual Memory Excavation #3), 2001 Different Notions of Thriftiness, 1978–2005 Different Notions of Time, 1979–2005 Different Realities, 1982–2005 Life’s Layering, 2005 Threescore Years and Ten: The Process of Aging IV (2002–06), 2012 Seventy-Five and Counting: The Process of Aging V 2007–11 (1st Half), 2012 Seventy-Five and Counting: The Process of Aging V 2007–11 (2nd Half), 2012 My Night Sagas, 2014 Battlefronts at Eighty (The Process of Aging VI), 2015 Reaching 84 (The Process of aging VII), 2020