Matthew Lenkiewicz, Erd Apfel, 2014

In Lenkiewicz’s work, architecture acts as a mediator between myth and reality. Erd Apfel references the work of Neo-Futurist Architect Buckminster Fuller whose experiments with Icosahedron globes and other geodesic forms elaborate an idealistic vision of the future that include efficiency, lightness and technological harmony. The church‘s trefoils and quatrefoils symbolize a wholly different ideological view of the cosmos where Earth’s inhabitants are at the center of an illusory construct, in which our true orientation is only made apparent through an understanding of the Trinity or through the teachings of the four evangelists.