I first saw Dick Termes' work in the summer of 2012. A local middle school art teacher, Dori Klopfer, wrote a grant to bring Dick to Cheyenne for a workshop with her ninth graders, along with a public workshop and show at the Laramie County Library. While planning our summer trip to Spearfish SD, I discovered that Dick's gallery and studio were close by. It was on our must visit list. So, with our 1974 wooden teardrop trailer in tow, we pulled into the gallery driveway. Now I need to say a little bit about our trailer. It was called Woodstock (I am using the past tense for a reason to be explained in an upcoming post) It was built by a genuine hippie from Casper Wyoming. While Woodstock was totally rocking the vibes of Termes' hand built, wooden, geodesic dome gallery and studio, we parked and began climbing the stairs to the gallery. The minute we stepped into the gallery, the assistant flipped a switch which brought to life 60 spherical globes, rotating at precisely one revolution per minute. The Termespheres are about optical illusion and 6 point perspective. Dick's technique involves way too much math for my liking but they are none the less very cool. He calls them, "An inside out view of the total physical world around you on the outside surface of a hanging and rotating sphere." We spent time looking at all the spheres including the first one he ever made. It is always interesting to me to see how an artist develops his ideas and abilities over time. We purchased a reproduction of one of his pieces which you can cut out and form into a sphere (Dave's job not mine) and headed back to the car. We think Woodstock wanted to stay longer but we needed to head down the road for more adventures in the Black Hills of South Dakota and beyond.
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