16″ Termesphere
Painted: 2006
Location: Termesphere Gallery (reproduction)
This 16″ diameter spherical painting was commissioned by Alyce Schavone from Spearfish, South Dakota. She and her late husband, Tony, were great Chicago baseball fans. I flew to Chicago to see a game and took three Total Photos inside the stadium. I also took many random photos of the fans as that is such a large part of what Old Ball Game is about. While painting the sphere many of the fans became people that were baseball fans that live in Spearfish and were friends of Alyce. The sky above the field has Sammy Sosa, Harry Carry, Babe Ruth pointing to the fence and others that played America’s greatest sport. My objective was to capture the feeling of sitting in the old wooden stands, witnessing the great American sport, a feeling so many can only dream of.