Link for this Post: Intro to Paul Laffoley and Future Organic Technology
A couple of days ago, I found a site called Miquel.Com "Your Favorite Source of Random Information." Actually the information is not a "random" as advertised but along the lines of stuff you might see on this blog.
Among the interesting eclectic information found on the site is a virtual visionary art expo by an artist named Paul Laffoley. One of his images adorns the top of this post. Here is how the artist describes his exhibit:
Immensely detailed mandalas of geometrical systems, thought symmetries, machines of the future, bioengineered living structures, methods of creating time-machines and dimensional wormholes are just the beginning!
There are many images up there and it would be worth your while to go there and take a look around.
Paul Laffoley creates great, and at the same time somewhat ‘strange’ visionary art.
Thanks for bringing him to our attention.
Timothy Leary coined the word “futique” — a word that combines future and antique. I think that this term is appropriate for this art.
Hi Bruce,
I’ve been a fan of your writing for many years! Thanks for the link & glad you enjoyed the site.
Paul Laffoley is (in my opinion) literally one of the most amazing & important artists of the late 20th / early 21st century. You might be interested to know that he’s NEVER taken psychedelics … his works come in complete ‘chunks’ by way of lucid dreaming. Quite a fascinating person!
Interesting that you mention Leary, Paul met him once and made the following comment “Timothy Leary came to a show I had about 2 weeks before the (Woodstock) Festival. His only comment was “I like your sense of humor.” It is only now that I realized he was not talking about my paintings but about my appearance in relation to the paintings I produce.”