Paul Laffoley

I found out about this artist through an informative dvd from Disinformation, which covers interesting people, places and trends - culture, politics, etc...



Most of his work includes diagrams, schematics, and text-driven metaphysical theorizing. Sometimes they're machines, or life processes, living spaces, or sometimes just conceptual riddles. Here's a grab-bag of some of his work.



Many of his works seem to be at the Kent Gallery (images down the left sidebar). And here's a nice little photo-walkthrough showing some of the detail in their pieces.



His strange art definitely reflects his strange ideas. I got his out-of-print book, The Phenomenology of Revelation, awhile back - mainly for the page-sized prints and corresponding "explanations."



His explanation of "Thanton III" (above):

The painting depicts an extraterrestrial's exhortation to me, explaining how to:
1) Link life to death in a continuous experience.
2) Utilize the resulting thanatonic energy to travel faster than the speed of light, turn matter into consciousness and back again, alter evolution at will, and exist simultaneously at every moment in time.
3) Move the entire universe into the fifth dimensional realm, and say when in history it is possible for this to happen.

I have also received other information I cannot understand

Sound like a painting you could dig?