Original Journals
The following hand-written journals were discovered in Paul Laffoley’s studio following his death on November 16, 2015. The are a complete record of his theoretical hand written texts, and were written independent o this ideas for paintings. The original manuscripts were donated to the Phillips Library and the Peabody Essex Museum, and permission to reproduce should be obtained by contacting the new owners directly.
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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.)