Geochronmechane: The Time Machine from the Earth, 1990
Paul Laffoley (1935-2015) firmly believed that all science fiction during the 20th Century became science fact, except for the ultimate creation of a “time machine”. The submarine, travel to the Moon, the wrist phone and many others came into being once the imagination was stimulated.
Geochronmechane was Paul’s exploration of a possible method of realizing time travel, resulting in a diagrammatic presentation of his thought processes:
“the attempt to build a Time Machine, or even to propose the possibility of such a device coming into existence, by any individual has been cause to label that individual and one holding, or laden with embarrassing, atavistic and superstitious beliefs about the nature of reality. This has been the general case even to the present. Apparently sympathetic but no less devastating to the image of “A Time-Machine Builder” is the idea that such a person is being held in the “psychological grip” of what has been called a most singular fantasy of our period, or perhaps even a new version of the primordial myth – to control time itself. “
Geochronmechane: The Time Machine from the Earth, 1990
Serigraph in colored inks, with corrections by the artist in colored pencils
Coventry acid-free rag
No. 26 from the Edition of 75
Paper: 32 x 32 in. / Image: 28 x 28 in.
Subject: The Third Design Phase of The Time Machine
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