Paul Laffoley Cambridge, MA, 1935-2015

Paul Laffoley was an artist and visionary, a cartographer of consciousness, and an architect of alternate realities. Across his detailed and complex paintings, he constructed visual thought-forms that combined mysticism, scientific theory, and futuristic speculation into diagrams of the universe. Laffoley's work is situated between visionary art and speculative metaphysics, offering an esoteric yet remarkably coherent view of reality. Laffoley’s creative process drew from a wide and unconventional range of sources: quantum physics, classical mythology, occult symbolism, architectural theory, and even science fiction. He often referred to his paintings, featuring...