Cryonic Suspension Dewar, Liquid Nitrogen 1990

Samadhi Sensory Deprivation Tank 1990

Samadhi Sensory Deprivation Tank. 1990

Untitled. (Vanishing Object) Paradichlorobenzene and plexi glass. 1990

Olfactory object. Arabian harem. 1988

Detail. Olfactory object. Lysol.

Untitled. (Sexual surrogate device for copulating purposes) Plexiglas pedestal. 1989.

John LeKay. Metagnomic perception boxes. 1988.

Tactile objects. 1988

Negation of experience. Hypnosis chamber. 1990

AlphaOmega. 1988

Installation at the Paula Alan Gallery, New York, 1990.

Odor Absorber. 1987

Olfactory Objects ( Series consisted of incense from an Arabian harem, cow manure, Lysol disinfectant and many scented objects.

EK: What is metagnomic perception?

JL: It is perception that is obtained from a source outside the five normal human senses.

Manure, mink fur

Inside is a reclining chair, headphones and tape machine with written instructions to turn it on. Once the participant turns on the tape machine, I induce them into a light state of hypnosis and implant a post hypnotic suggestion that once they step outside of the curtain, the entire experience of listening to my voice, seeing the tape machine and sitting in the chair inside the curtain will be erased from their memory - so they reenter again and again,

The reel to reel tape machine in a sound proof box with an extension leading to a microphone, which is contained inside of a soundproof plexiglass box, the tape machine records the sound inside the plexiglass box onto a perpetual tape loop of erasing the sound and then recording the sound and vice versa.

There is a point in which the erased recording and the new recording meets. This point is where destruction and creativity become one. I was also thinking about time. How time is really man made and in the mind. I wanted to capture this timelessness, this infinity, or eternity, visually - Somehow.

Stainless steel, plexiglas, arm and hammer baking soda