Paul Laffoley, The Visionary Point, 1970

1970

Medium

Oil, acrylic, ink, and hand applied letters on canvas

Dimensions

2 × 73 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-987158

Subject_ The connection between that which has no history and that, which has only history. Symbol Evocation_ The Instant of Revelation. Comments_ The dream state being referred to is the lucid dream brought to such a primordial and tupiodal (manifesting) state that we are placed in a position to witness universal creation and destruction directly. In the 18th century the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) took Plato’s ideas of time and space and placed them on the same footing or ontic status. To the raw data of sensation, Kant held that we contribute the forms of space and time. Space is the form of the external sense, and time is the form of the internal sense. We never experience anything, said Kant, except that it is in space and time. 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.