Termesphere History

Termesphere History
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The commissions I have received have a variety of subjects and sizes. PULL TO THE NORTH (fig 1) 1984, is a five and one half foot sphere painted for the North Pole Alaska High School. It plays with the idea that energies from the land create cities.

(fig 1)

(fig 2)

Another commission from the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy in 1985, ORDER/DISORDER (fig 2) is a seven and one half foot diameter. This sphere is lighted and motorized from within. It was painted from the inside and reads the same whether daytime or nighttime. Orderly people and disorderly people live in this world building, destroying their environments.

(fig 3)		NORTH IS SOUTH (fig 3 &4). 1979, is a 24" diameter sphere owned by the Coca Cola Corporation in Atlanta Georgia. This sphere shows a repeated interior of a room. Everything on the south side of the room repeats itself on the north side, and everything on the east side repeats itself on the west side.		(fig 4)

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ENDLESS HORIZON (fig 5) 1990, is a 5 1/2 foot sphere owned by the South Dakota Education and Cultural Affairs Commission and was painted on behalf of the South Dakota Centennial. A strip of the horizon shows continuous landscapes, interesting buildings and other intriguing things found around South Dakota in 1990. It is organized in a yin yang spiral that runs from top to bottom. A second spiral shows the four seasons of our state.

The University of Central Florida commissioned a 36" sphere called ROUNDING OFF THE EDGES (fig 6). This subject plays with rooms that have strong perspective, that are filled with people studying perspective, polyhedra, and many other ideas that interested Termes.

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(fig 7)

The Sphere Museum in Tokyo owns a Termesphere called
CONCAVE BUBBLES (fig 7) . This painting shows 100 reflective balls floating through a room. Each ball reflects the room from where the ball is located within that room. The balls float in through a window and out the other side through a door.

(fig 8)

Geometry has played a large role in Termes' work. One sphere that reflects this is ALPHA OMEGA (fig 8) (2001), a 16" diameter sphere with two overlapping spirals. One spiral is brought out because of value, or dark and lightness, and the other is brought out because of hue.

In DON'T DISTURB MY CIRCLES (fig 9) Termes' realistic ideas grow from geometry. All the animal and human forms develop from a circle overlapping a grid.

(fig 9)

MIGRATION FORCES (fig 10) also plays with a geometric image called Tessellating Patterns. Tight fitting arrows grow from the North Pole and return to the South Pole. Birds also follow the same forces, migrating from north to south.
		(fig 10)

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