Paul LAFFOLEY (b. 1935 Cambridge, MA. d. 2015 Boston, MA)
THE ZEIT-GEIST, 1970
Ink and Rapidograph with handset Letraset on Museum Board
Framed: 16 5/8 x 16 5/8 in. / 42.35 x 42.35 cm
Live Image: 10 x 10 in. / 25.4 x 25.4 cm
Provenance:
Gift from the Artist
Private Collection
In 1790, the famous German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe invented the term “Zeitgeist” (the spirit of the times). Laffoley would refer to the two interlocking triangles as a symbol of stability which he would call the “Emerald Tablet”. The Tablet is the summary of the meaning and structure of alchemy. This concept was key to the formation of The Boston Visionary Cell in 1971.
Yet we never experience either space or time. Space and time in which we order phenomena, therefore, must come not from sensation but from within. We are literal co-creators of the universe utilizing this capacity for revelation. I suspect that lucid dreaming or its variations is involved in how the copies are made from the platonic forms, thus explaining how becoming unites with being. The Visionary Point, therefore, is that moment in time when a viable time machine begins to operate and has the capacity to access the entire past and future of human history from that fatal present. It is an instant of time that can be described as the meeting of time moving forward and time moving backward, and it becomes the point in time, which exactly precedes the beginning moment of the mystical experience of the entire earth.
On May 9, 1971, The Boston Visionary Cell, Incorporated was legally ratified by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
