When one of Dick Termes's sons was asked what his father does for a living, he said, "my dad's work is like taking your eyeball out of your head, putting it in a building, and when it spins you can see everything from that one point in space." Termes laughs, but admits the description fits. His Termespheres are one-of-a-kind painted balls on which one can view the inside of the Pantheon in Rome or St. Peter's Cathedral, or a geometric surrealistic scene, as if it had been painted looking out through a transparent globe. In a Termesphere, however, you are on the outside of the globe looking in! Mercator and others attempted to paint the globe onto a flat surface, but Termes does something different - he paints the world around us onto the globe. As a creator of more than 150 Termespheres in the past 32 years,

Dick Termes is truly the modern master of perspective. "Where-as Picasso and the cubists painted a violin as if they were looking all around it," Termes says, "I paint as if I were the violin looking out at the world." As a result, comprehending a Termesphere takes us into a fairly amazing new sense of perspective.