| LAFFOLEY ARCHIVE: Painting Details - 'The MELLONCHRON' (1985) | ||
| CURRENT LISTING: "The Prophase Symbol Of The Future : THE MELLONCHRON : As The Prehension Of The Eternal Past" | ||
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 "The Mellonchron" 1985 Oil, acrylic, lettering on canvas 73 1/2 x 73 1/2 in. "Subject: The Impact of the Future |
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Retyped text of "THE MELLONCHRON" (across top) "The Prophase Symbol Of The Future : THE MELLONCHRON : As The Prehension Of The Etern Past" (contrast enhanced view of Celtic knot in white area above the meta-cosm)  META-COSM (outer-sphere, left side) THE MANIFEST UNIVERSE: DIVINE Ontological Necessity: EVERYTHING (outer-sphere, right side) Logical Necessity: NOTHING AGONY: THE UNMANIFEST UNIVERSE  (secondary inner-sphere, top) THE DIMENSIONAL SPISSITUDE  (outside lettering of lower hemisphere) "The Clear Future Will Converge The Myth Of History As Eternal Recurrence With The Myth of History As The Non-Reversible Kairos."  (secondary inner sphere lower) THE CLEAR FUTURE The Subject of the Relative Clear Future: Individual, Family, Group, Neighborhood, Village, Town, City, County - Province, Country, Continent, Planet, Star System, Nebula, Galaxy, Universe :The Subject of the Absolute Clear Future |
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 PAST(upper-left circle and curve extending to center) PAST ORIENTED: Atomic Events All Atomic Events Are Too Fast For The Perception of Change (lower inner-left panel) RETROCOGNITION THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST 1. The Present Order of Society is Correct. 2. Innovators Tend to be Philistines and Reformers Are Potential Dictators. 3. Institutions Should Always Be Given the Benefit of the Doubt over Doubters Of Institutions. (lower-most left circle) The Divergence Of Sameness From Difference Matter Precedes Form The Beginning of Time The Diversity of Matter The Memory Of the Past |
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 FUTURE (curve extending from center to upper-right circle) All Cosmic Events Are Too Slow For The Perception of Change FUTURE ORIENTED: Cosmic Events (lower inner-right panel) PRECOGNITION THE PRESENCE OF THE FUTURE 1. There Is A logic to the Unfolding Of Change In History. 2. The Logic of history Is On the Side Of All Innovators and Reformers. 3. Institutions Are Harborers Of Confusion Which Become Frozen into Dogmatic Bureaucracies. (lower-most right circle) The Anticipation Of the Future The Unity of Form Form Precedes Matter The End of Time The Convergence Of The Difference Into Sameness |
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CHRONON (text above lower-center circle containing chronon, mobius knot, and Phi-spiral) (negative imagination) The Actual Gain and Loss of Information: The Unclear Past - - The Unclear Future: The Eventual Gain and Loss of Information (negative imagination) (text entering Chronon from past) The Reclaiming of All the Knowledge From the Past Heights of Civilizations (text leaving Chronon to futures) The Development and Decay of the Convergence of All Knowledge (inner-edge text inside Chronon circle, upper) THE HUMAN CHRONON: The Briefest Historical Event That Can Be Perceived  (text in center Mobius knot of Chronon strange-loop) The CLEAR FUTURE Is A Structured Singularity Within The Realm Of Time HISTORY Records The Human Engineering Of Time in Space (inner-edge text inside Chronon circle, lower) The Particular Instant When the Clear Future Becomes Possible  (text below, outside the Chronon circle) Presernt Oriented : The Events of Human History Are at the Correct Velocity For Perception of Change. The Exchange of the Ignorance of the Past for the Ignorance of the Future. (bottom center margin text) THE CLEAR FUTURE: Begins As That Moment In Human History When the Possibility Arises Of Transcending the Heights of Civilization Beyond All Art, Science, Technology, Magic, or Mysticism To A Portal Of Eternity For The Total Physical Universe. The Portal Is A Common Aevum Both In and Out of Time :A TRUE CONVENTICLE (Homage at base of Painting) Homage to: J.W. Alexander, Jacob Boehme, C.J. Ducasse, M.C. Escher, Hilton Hotema, Charles Jencks, Joseph Kerrick, Henry More, Nietzche, Teilhard De Chardin  |
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Paul Laffoley's Comments on the Mellonchron: "Prior to the 20th Century the geometries that described the passage of time, and the nature of the past, present and future were limited to linear concepts such as the straight line or the circle. These constraints were considered only as metaphor. It is said that the straight line (without width) allows for the ideas of progress, free will, and the process of evolution. The circle is the choice of those who believe in eternal recurrence of events and fate. Entering the 20th Century biological mathematicians like René Thom began to realize that there is no such thing as "pure" mathematics with no applications at all. To Thom if you discuss the biological passage of time in relation to geometry you are literally practicing magic - that is making and existential connection between an aspect of reality and an abstract concept. In fact, he goes on to claim that, "geometry is successful magic." When I say, therefore, that I can make the past and future by using the form of the Alexander Horned sphere (a topological form discovered by J.W. Alexander in 1924), which depends on reciprocal, recursive regeneration of form, I have created a magic Talisman." |
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