Laffoley: No matter how you see the world, he’ll change it.
A huge Paul Laffoley fan since the mid-90′s, I regularly poke around online for new revelations. (As with Serindia‘s long-awaited Atlas of Tibetan Medicine, I’m beginning to wonder if the catalogue raisonné announced years ago will ever materialize.) Though I’ve previously visited the part of Miquel.com devoted to the artist’s work, I had no idea the site was so expansive. Proprietor Michael Coleman’s manifest interests include (for starters): design (heavy emphasis on geodesic dome pioneer Bucky Fuller), transhumanism, math art, seriously weird random images, Robert Anton Wilson, music as a spiritual pursuit (with Coltrane as exemplar, how can he go wrong?), celestial maps, thrift store record jackets, health-related topics, contemporary society, The Holy Mountain, Bonnaroo, entheogens, aggressively goofy Youtube footage, cryptozoology, UFOs, free online stuff, everything optimization, self-education, and climate change. How does Coleman finance the behemoth? Mostly out of pocket, I’m guessing, though he gratefully accepts donations and, with the maestro’s blessing, sells Laffoley posters unavailable elsewhere. Drink deep. Visit often. And most importantly, send money. Given the operation’s rate of expansion, dude’s bandwith and hosting costs can’t be negligible.
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Laffoley spoke his first word–”Constantinople”–at six months, then clammed up for several years.
Bill visited Paul Laffoley’s studio when he was in New York a couple of years ago, and Laffoley just happened to be there. He was very friendly and (I believe) walked Bill through a few of his works. Pretty exciting.
Yow! I’d love to hear the entire story.
Thanks for the website review! It’s kind of a messy sprawling site – it would be 5x the size if i had more time to add stuff or had it in some type of content management system, lol.
Anyhow, I just added a bunch of Laffoley paintings with a DeepZoom app, check it out!
http://miqel.com/visionary_art/laffoley_gallery_2.html
DeepZoom on Miqel’s site is an incredible feature.