The Boston Visionary Cell

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.)

1970: VISIONARY ART (10 Pgs.)

1972: BACK-BAY PROMENADE, BOSTON, MASS. SCULPTURE PROPOSAL, TITLE: THE END OF ART HISTORY APPENDIX VI (23 Pgs.)

1972: VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE: TOWARD AN EXPLANATION OF VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE AS AN ETERNAL GENRE APPENDIX IV [C] (4 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.)

1974: THE AT LANTRAN FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PSYCHOTRONIC GENERATOR: THE WALLACE LIBRARY GARDEN COMPETITION (4 Pgs.)

1975: AN EXPLANATION OF THE ATLANTIS PROJECT: “THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE UTOPIAS” APPENDIX II (13 Pgs.)

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: 3 ESSAYS OF THE THEME OF METARCHITECTURE: META HISTORY AND THE FORMULATION OF SPIRITUALLY CONCEIVED ARCHITECTURE APPENDIX IV (2 Pgs.)

1976: METARCHAEOLOGY: MODALITIES OF THE REAL BEYOND THE PHYSICAL APPENDIX III (6 Pgs.)

1976: THE LEVOGYRE (99 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 CHRONOARK: A CENTER FOR THE EXPERIENTIAL STUDY OF TIME. THE THIRD DESIGN STAGE OF THE TIME- MACHINE (18 Pgs.)

1978: THE DANTE SPHERE (24 Pgs.)

1978: THE TESSERACT HOUSE PLATES (6 Pgs.)

1978: THE TESSERACT: THE HYPERCUBE (29 Pgs.)

1979: THE AETHEIAPOLIS: TOWARD THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF THE STRUCTURED SINGULAR CITY (25 Pgs.)

1980: THE ASTRATRON (12 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.)

1987: THE AETHEIAPOLIS NOTES: TOWARD THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF THE STRUCTURED SINGULAR CITY (66 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: DEATH-LIFE (8 Pgs.)

1989 DIMENSIONALITY (10 Pgs.)

1989: SYMBOLISM (14 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.)

1992: UTOPIC SPACE (11 Pgs.)

1993: LAMPRONEIRO: ART AND THE LUCID DREAM (11 Pgs.)

1993: STEVEN M. ROSEN: FIRST RESPONSE (64 Pgs.)

1994: M.A.G.I.C. (11 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.)

1996: SOMAKATOLIGON (11 Pgs.)

1997: BASQUE TO THE FUTURE DRAFT (11 Pgs.)

1997: BASQUE TO THE FUTURE (11 Pgs.)

1997: DISCO VOLANTE (8 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.)

1999: PANTHEON (14 Pgs.)

2000: APRIL IN NEW YORK (23 Pgs.)

2000: GROSSER GRABEN (10 Pgs.)

2001: DIMENSIONALITY (38 Pgs.)

2001: FETAL DREAMS (93 Pgs.)

2001: PORTALING (7 Pgs.)

2001: UTOPIC SPACE (6 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.)

2003: MEMENTO MORI (18 Pgs.)

2005: DIMENSIONALITY CORRESPONDENCE WITH LINDA DALYMPLE HENDERSON (73 Pgs.)

2005: TIME PHASE X (11 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: HANK WILLIAMS (4 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.)

ND: THE TOPOLOGY OF MYSTICISM (2 Pgs.)

ND: TOWARD A DEFINITION OF SCIENCE FICTION (11 Pgs.)