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Join artist Benjamin Lowder in the Fuller Dome Gallery on Friday 11/21/25 at 7:00 PM as he unpacks the geometry, wisdom traditions, synchronicities and influence of Buckminster Fuller informing the artwork in this exhibition titled "A New Language" currently on view in the Fuller Dome Gallery. These works seek "a new language" through transmuting the letter forms of vintage metal advertising.

“A New Language” launched on 10/24/25 with an evening of poetry, song, sacred story and visual art in the Fuller Dome with Rabbis Susan Talve and James Goodman. Accompanying the words and music was a visual art exhibition in the Fuller Dome Gallery by Benjamin Lowder featuring geometric assemblages built from reclaimed wood and vintage metal signage.

Lowder’s current series of work is titled, “Myth, Math & Magic.” This series is comprised of two- and three-dimensional totems constructed of reclaimed lumber and vintage metal signage. The advertising tropes of the vintage signs are deconstructed and reassembled into sacred geometric patterns that break the magic spell cast by the advertising’s original letterforms. These artifacts are recast to transmute feelings of nostalgia for an unsustainable past while drawing forward ancient wisdom to support an abundant future.

The Fuller Dome is located on the campus of Southern Illinois University. Once on campus follow Circle Drive around campus to Visitor Parking Lot B, which is located right beside the Fuller Dome, Center for Spirituality and Sustainability.