Messiah Complex 1997
plastic, wood, metal, paint
22 X 12 1/2 X 17 1/2"
Geodesic structures of Buckminster Fuller appealed to opposing ideologies. While hippies feverishly assembled thier bulbous communes, the Army was buying and assembling Fuller's domes to house RADAR equipment and troops. Architecturally representing the unity of ultra right and ultra left wing sentiments, this dome depicts an idealistic self sustaining living quarters upstairs, and a bomb making and plot hatching quarters in the basement.
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