| Paul Laffoley |
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1940- )
Lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts
Paul Laffoley began his career as an architect
(though he was 'dismissed' from The Harvard Graduate School of Design
for "conceptual deviance") and apprenticed for a while with the visionary
architect Frederick Kiesler. He remains an architect and architectural
historian. In 1968 Laffoley moved into an 18' by 30' room in Boston,
Massachusetts that became the headquarters of an organization he
created called The Boston Visionary Cell, a group dedicated to exploring
the complex inter-relatedness of nature, science, dreams, the occult
and the paranormal. In 1992, a miniature metallic implant was discovered
in his brain, which he believes to be extraterrestrial in origin,
and which he identifies as at least a partial source for his unusual
way of seeing and understanding the universe. This is a self-portrait
in which he recounts a number of the extraordinary events of his
life, and establishes links to both his history and his future, the
facts of which in his view are equally determinable. |
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The Twentyfirst Century Times, 1996
Photomechanicals, india
ink, adhesive letters on board, 23 x 23 in. |
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| The Twentyfirst Century Times, detail |
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