Termesphere Online Gallery

Category: Spheres

  • Flash to the Past

    I just received  new photos of one of my favorite spheres.  It is called Migration Patterns.  It was a piece studying the migration patterns of many birds from around the world.  Dan O’Brien helped with the subject matter of this piece.  The images of the birds show where they start from and when they end up in Spring and Winter.  There is also the image of the earth underneath and tessellating (tight fitting) arrows that are going north and south.  So this geometry does the same thing as the birds do.  These are all predatory birds.

  • Dripping Dreams


    Dripping Dreams is a 24” diameter sphere. It explored the subconscious side of my mind. As I work a lot with the left side of my brain now and then I like to make the other side do the work. I started this piece by loosely painting an abstract expressionistic painting on the sphere. Drips of paint were allowed to run down the sphere. These were later turned into drips within the painting. After finishing the abstract piece and exploring some very fun color combinations I let the piece dry. When it was dry I looked at it like you look at clouds to see what you can find for realistic images in them. These images were brought out just enough so others might see them. I moved throughout the piece finding people, birds, dragons, unrecognizable animals and strange beings. I thought about the work of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting on some of this. When I paint this kind of piece I don’t worry about why I am painting what I am painting. I allow whatever happens to happen. Others, I am sure will find some meaning.

  • The Brass Bed

    The Brass Bed

    tn_Brass BedThe Brass Bed is a 24” sphere painted in 1981. The theme was really fun. The scene on the spherical painting is a bedroom with an old brass bed in the room. The room also has two full length mirrors on the walls opposite each other. When you looked at the painting on the sphere you notice there are only three brass balls on the bed. The fourth brass ball is the sphere. It is reflecting the whole room. The mirrors on opposite walls reflect what is in the room over and over again.

  • We The People

    WE THE PEOPLE is a 30″ Termesphere which has freedom trees who’s branches form the people who have been hugely involved in these different freedoms.  The roots form the forefathers of our country.  The road running throughout the piece is the Constitution of the United States.

  • HOP (Hands on Partnership) Termesphere learning center

  • BIG BANG

  • Reflecting Back

  • Termesphere that show how perspective works

  • Six Senses Termesphere

    This 16″ Termesphere overlaps the six senses over the six vanishing points. Trees take the shape of faces who’s ears, eyes, mouths etc. overlap the vanishing points. It makes the point that the environments are only possible to understand if our senses are doing their job.

  • Common Grounds Sphere

    My latest Termesphere is called COMMON GROUNDS.   It is a 16 ” diameter sphere of our local coffee shop.   Markie and I go for coffee there most mornings.  I spend a lot of time watching people when we are there.  Commons Grounds is a place where everyone, young and old, interact with one another.  Different tables have different topics of conversations.  The weather at one, religion and philosophy at another, business dealings at another,  and wifi connecting some with the world.  It has a feeling of community.

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    I thought it would make an interesting subject.  The building the coffee shop is in is one of the oldest buildings in  Spearfish SD.  I started this sphere by taking pictures of people at the tables without them knowing I was doing it.   I didn’t want people posing for me. I played with this technique years ago when I was going to Otis Art Institute in Los Angles.  I would walk around MacArthur Park pointing and shooting without bringing my camera to my eye.   It caught people being themselves. This worked very well at Common Grounds too.  Then I brought the sphere into Common Grounds to do all the drawing and much of the painting.   If I have a chance, I like to create Termespheres in the actual environments.  I found a windowed corner where I could see the whole scene to do my drawing and painting on the sphere.   I also enjoyed talking to people explaining the process.  Most were amazed how long it took to create this piece from beginning to end.   After it was finished, I hung it in Common Grounds.  It is exciting to see the reactions of the natives and visitors to it.  It will probably be there another month.  If you are in Spearfish, stop by and let me know what you think.