This is a 7 1/2 foot diameter Termesphere I did in 1985 for the Law Enforcement Academy in Douglas Wyoming.
The artwork was painted from the inside to help protect it from the weather. It lights up and rotates from an inside motor and light. I bought the sphere from the company that made Union 76 gas station signs.
Young Lang and Kabe, our sons, are looking up at the painting. They had watched me paint this piece for nine months from the beginning. They were really excited about the piece, so I took this picture.
The theme played with orderly people and disorderly people. The orderly people build their world up and the disorderly people tear their world down. The cone hat and the inverted cone hat show those two different types of people.
When we got to Douglas to install the piece, we realized it was so big it would not go through any of the doors or windows to its final destination – an inside courtyard. At the last moment (like building a boat in the basement) I realized I had to hire a helicopter to lift it up and bring it in over the buildings. To say this was a nerve-racking experience is a true understatement.
