Paul Laffoley (born August 14, 1940) is a U.S. artist and architect. As an architect, Laffoley worked for 18 months on design for the World Trade Center Tower II. As a painter, his work is usually classified as visionary art or outsider art. Most of Laffoley’s pieces are painted on large canvases and combine words and imagery to depict a spiritual architecture of explanation, tackling concepts like dimensionality, time travel through hacking relativity, connecting conceptual threads shared by philosophers through the millennia, and theories about the cosmic origins of mankind.
Paul Laffoley began a highly original approach to the construction of the painted surface. Based on extensive hand written journals documenting his research, diagrams, and footnoted predecessors to various theoretical developments, Laffoley began to first organize his ideas in a format related to eastern mandalas that had captivated his interest in the spiritual. This format quickly developed into Laffoley’s three sub-groupings of work: operating Systems, psychotronic devices and lucid dreams related to them. Conceived of as “structured singularities”, Laffoley never works in series, but rather approached each project freshly, and individually.
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- Cosmolux, 1981
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- Dimensionality – The Manifestation of Fate, 1992
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- Geochronmechane-Time Machine from the Earth, 1990
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- Solitron
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- Thanaton III, 1989
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- The Eloptic Nohmagraphon, 1989
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- The Living Klein Bottle House of Time, 1978
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- The Number Dream, 1968
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- The Orgone Motor, 1981
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- The Parturient Blessed Morality of Physiological Dimensionality – Aleph-Null Number, 2004 – 2006
