Archives: Termespheres

This new 16″ diameter sphere plays with six artists looking at the same total room around them and drawing with different systems of perspective.

• The first lady in yellow on the outside of the railing is using a system of one point perspective looking straight north and getting a small part of the room on her flat canvas.
• To her right is a guy using a two point perspective system to capture what he is seeing ahead of him. His canvas captures from north to east directions or 90 degrees of his horizon.. He doesn’t capture very much of what is above or below.
• The third guy with three point perspective gets to see the point below him and north to east around himself. He captures 1/8th of the total space below and in front of him with straight lines. The octahedron sits to his right showing a good way to see what that 1/8th is all about. One of the triangles of the octahedron is one eighth of the total environment.
• Next, we have a woman with a white shirt who is exploring four point curved line perspective. She sees the point above and below her along with what she sees from east to south.
• The next person uses a grid that includes north, east, south, west and back to north points of perspective. There are no points above or below. These lines go straight up and down, parallel to each other. This is cylindrical perspective. There is a cylinder next to the artist that shows where this system comes from.
• The sixth artist is looking into a hemisphere to find inspiration for his canvas using a five point system of perspective. This canvas gives the artist half of the spherical images or a south, west, north, east, up and down points, or five points. This is a lot like a fish eye lens effect from the camera. The center of this system receives only straight lines.
  
• The last artist is sitting looking at a sphere with a six point perspective grid on it. This is the grid that makes the total sphere you are looking at possible.

When you put this yin yang on a sphere it allows the yin to be on top on one side and on the bottom on the other side of the sphere and the same for the yang.

Four plastic balls were arranged into a tetrahedron.  The design on the balls were also based on the tetrahedron.    This allowed four colors to be used on the hanging tetrahedron so it would change colors as it turned.

Henry Moore used this system of drawing to create ideas for his sculpture.   He felt it gave a much better idea of what the 3D form was. I thought it would be fun to see what using this alone would produce.

Man is unique in the Universe.   These cubical structures represent man in a universe of planets and stars.

This shows a grid system that creates many different tessellating patterns.  It works well for a meditation focal point. The patterns come out of concentric circles and radiating lines from the same point.  These two systems create rectangles which I added diagonals.

In this piece one line creates two images and multiple faces go in a design from a point at the bottom to a point at the top.

This explores the horseshoe arch from southern Spain.   It also uses the hexagon flower design for the floor.  It vanishes in six directions to the horizon line.

This piece was created by dripping paint down the sides of the sphere, then locating shapes and faces in the chaos and accentuating their forms.