Original Journals
The following hand-written journals were discovered in Paul Laffoley’s studio following his death on November 16, 2015. We believe the following journals are a complete record of his theoretical texts, in most cases, were written independent of his ideas for paintings.
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1961: GEORGES PIERRE SEURAT, ARTIST OR ARTISAN? (66 Pgs.)
1961: GEORGES PIERRE SEURAT: PART II (22 Pgs.)
1967: THE POSSIBILITY OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE PROPERTIES OF TIME (13 Pgs.)
1969: WOODSTOCK AT BETHEL: THE HOUSE OF GOD, THE SECOND STEP (23 Pgs.)
1970: FINAL PRESENTATION OF THE VISIONS OF HISTORY APPENDIX IX (4 Pgs.)
1970: THE CONCEPT OF ENERGY IN RELATION TO PHI, Φ TOWARD A META-ENERGY APPENDIX VIII (9 Pgs.)
1970: VISIONARY ART: AN ATTEMPT AT A DEFINITION (38 Pgs.)
1972: THE PRINCIPLES OF ALCHEMY (41 Pgs.)
1972: THE PRINCIPLES OF ALCHEMY PART III, THE SPIRITUAL THE TRANSCENDENT, THE UNKNOWABLE (57 Pgs.)
1973: THE ENTIRE SYSTEM ALCHEMY (1 Pg.)
1975: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING THE DESIGN OF NEW-AGE COMMUNITIES APPENDIX IV [A] (7 Pgs.)
1975: THE TIME MACHINE: FIRST DESIGN PHASE (9 Pgs.)
1975: THE U.F.O. AS THE BASIS OF A WORLD META-HISTORY APPENDIX I (8 Pgs.)
1975: THE URBAN FOSSICKATED OCTAVE APPENDIX IV [B] (9 Pgs.)
1975: “VISIONS OF HISTORY”: NOTES IN DIAGRAMMATIC FORM FOR THE PROJECT APPENDIX VII (14 Pgs.)
1976: METARCHAEOLOGY: MODALITIES OF THE REAL BEYOND THE PHYSICAL APPENDIX III (6 Pgs.)
1976: WHALES AND THE SEA: PROPOSAL FOR BVAU (10 Pgs.)
1977: THE RENOVATIO MUNDI (1 Pg.) .
1977: THE TIME MACHINE: 1976-77 APPENDIX V (1 Pg.)
1977: THE VISIONS OF HISTORY (93 Pgs.)
1977: TOWARD A META ENERGY (1 Pg.)
1978: THE DANTE SPHERE (24 Pgs.)
1978: THE TESSERACT HOUSE PLATES (6 Pgs.)
1978: THE TESSERACT: THE HYPERCUBE (29 Pgs.)
1980: THE PLAN TO REDESIGN THE TOTAL PHYSICAL UNIVERSE (1 Pgs.)
1980: TOWARD A DEFINITION OF A SYMBOL (1 Pg.)
1981: STRUCTURED EPIPHANIES (44 Pgs.)
1982: THE LADDER OF JACOB (9 Pgs.)
1983: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MASTER DENDRIFORM (12 Pgs.)
1983: HE ATE A GHOST PART I (27 Pgs.)
1983: HE ATE A GHOST PART II (16 Pgs.)
1983: THE DANTE SPHERE (24 Pgs.)
1986: DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI: REFLECTIONS UPON HAVING ILLUSTRATED (7 Pgs.)
1987: COSMOS/CHAOS SPEECH (5 Pgs.)
1988 BIOERGONENERVARETHANATO OUTLINE (4 Pgs.)
1988 BIOERGONENERVARETHANTO (23 Pgs.)
1988: THE AETHEIAPOLIS NOTES (4 Pgs.)
1988: THE THANATON: PTENOS OXUBAPHON THANTOS [FLYING SAUCER DEATH] (14 Pgs.)
1988: NARRATIVE CHRONOLOGY (4 Pgs.)
1989: THE BAUHAROQUE (59 Pgs.)
1989: THE KYKLOS OF HERMOCRATES (19 Pgs.)
1989: THE SPACE BETWEEN: THE ART OF WOJCHIECH FANGOR (16 Pgs.)
1990: GEOCHRONMECHANE FIRST DRAFT (13 Pgs.)
1990: GEOCHRONMECHANE: THE TIME MACHINE FROM THE EARTH (23 Pgs.)
1991: THE ALCHEMY OF BREATHING (5 Pgs.)
1992: CAREER NARRATIVE OF PAUL LAFFOLEY (2 Pgs.)
1993: LAMPRONEIRO: ART AND THE LUCID DREAM (11 Pgs.)
1993: STEVEN M. ROSEN: FIRST RESPONSE (64 Pgs.)
1994: THE END OF THE FUTURE: THE UNIVERSE IS A TIME MACHINE (14 Pgs.)
1995: THE NUMBER DREAM (3 Pgs.)
1995: THE UTOPIC SPACE OF XANADU (9 Pgs.)
1996: APRIL IN NEW YORK (32 Pgs.)
1996: DISCO VOLANTE: VERSION II (8 Pgs.)
1997: BASQUE TO THE FUTURE DRAFT (11 Pgs.)
1997: BASQUE TO THE FUTURE (11 Pgs.)
1997: RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM (26 Pgs.)
1997: THE CLEAR FUTURE DRAFT (5 Pgs.)
1997: THE CLEAR FUTURE (5 Pgs.)
1998: MIND PHYSICS OF LEONARD T. TROLAND (4 Pgs.)
1999: AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART: CORRESPONDENCES (26 Pgs.)
1999: BOSTON VISIONARY CELL INC. (9 Pgs.)
1999: PANTHEON: HOMAGE TO EDWARD GIBBON AND SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (62 Pgs.)
1999: THE ANTHE: HIERONYMUS BOX TWO PART I (48 Pgs.)
1999: THE ANTHE: PART TWO PRACTICE (51 Pgs.)
2000: APRIL IN NEW YORK (23 Pgs.)
2000: GROSSER GRABEN (10 Pgs.)
2001: DIMENSIONALITY (38 Pgs.)
2002: A GRAND HOTEL ON THE HUDSON (46 Pgs.)
2002: BECOMING A SHADOW (4 Pgs.)
2003: ABSTRACTS FOR LECTURE TOPICS RELATED TO GAUDI (9 Pgs.)
2003: BASIA FALLEN ANGEL REGAINING HER WINGS (1 Pg.)
2003: FROM BALAKLAVA TO ABRAXAS (37 Pgs.)
2005: DIMENSIONALITY CORRESPONDENCE WITH LINDA DALYMPLE HENDERSON (73 Pgs.)
2007: THE INTENTIONALITY OF ONENESS (12 Pgs.)
2008: THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF GEEZER ART (5 Pgs.)
2010: MY GRANDFATHER AND MARK TWAIN (32 Pgs.)
2013: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL OUTTAKES (11 Pgs.)
ND: BRAGDON MEETS HEINLEIN (15 Pgs.)
ND: NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE UTOPIAS (36 Pgs.)
ND: PENETRATING THE KITSCH BARRIER (11 Pgs.)
ND: QUARTUMDIMENSIO AEDIFICIUM: FOURTH DIMENSIONAL BUILDING (20 Pgs.)
ND: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MYSTICISM (45 Pgs.)
ND: THE AEOLOIKOS: AN AEOLIAN HARP HOUSE (19 Pgs.)
ND: THE ALCHEMY OF VISION: HOMAGE TO GOETHE (14 Pgs.)
ND: THE ALCHEMY OF VISIONS (17 Pgs.)
ND: THE ASSUMPTIONS OF THE TIME MACHINE (3 Pgs.)
ND: THE NEW ENGLAND CENTENNIAL SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTION (7 Pgs.)
ND: THE REVIVAL OF SYMBOLISM (2 Pgs.)
ND: THE VISIONARY GENRE (3 Pgs.)