A very tight system of cubes in perspective was used in this sphere.
Archives: Termespheres
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Penetrating the Sphere (chain)
If you start in the middle the sphere is half land and half sky. As you move up the land gets smaller and smaller. When you move down, the sky gets smaller and smaller meaning you are entering the earth and it is closing in around you.
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My Visual Sphere – SOLD
The artist is conceptually on the inside of the sphere painting the sphere. Soon he will be enclosed on the inside.
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Listening to the People – SOLD
This piece was done while I was at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. The images came from MacArthur Park which was right next to Otis. It was an experience in those days to walk through MacArthur Park. People came to give speeches, play games and watch other people. This piece comes from that experience. I took many photos of the people there. This is where this piece came from.
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Dualisms – SOLD
This is based on concave and convex objects in our world. The sphere itself can also look like a concave objects.
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Cross Roads – SOLD
Each junction would be a famous person. This shows how we all connect with each other with ideas.
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Six Point Room – SOLD
This is the first sphere Dick Termes ever painted. It was painted with oil paints on a small nine inch diameter kids toy ball. He painted while he was studying at the University of Wyoming.
The image is an interpretation of a how a cube would look painted on a sphere – because of his earlier studies in perspective, Termes realized that in order to paint a cube on a sphere he needed to think of being inside the cube rather than outside. This epiphany was really the conception point for all his works to come.
Simpler in concept to his later work, Termes simply imaged himself standing in a room. He then painted all of the lines in the room so they would point to the middle of the room. A mirror painted on one of the walls shows the way the room would change as your position changed, depending on where standing.
A person outside the sphere picking moons like fruit from a tree. 
A person trying to get control of the Universe by picking spheres from the sky. 
A table with a ball with a cube painted on it. It also shows a sheet of paper with a cube in six point perspective. The three sets of pole is shown by three sticks stacked on the table. 
The man painting on the sphere on the table is shown in this mirror on the wall. The light bulb is in front of his head symbolizing a new idea is discovered.
