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If the Vehicle Is Round, Wheels Are Unnecessary
IT looks like a Volkswagen Microbus, the sort that starred in last year’s film “Little Miss Sunshine,” somehow squeezed
into a sphere six feet in diameter.
The ball is the work of the artist Lars-Eric Fisk of Burlington, Vt., who specializes in sphere-shaped sculpture. His work
has been shown in museums including the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass., outside Boston, and the
Dartmouth College museum.
In the catalog for the DeCordova exhibition, he called the sphere was a “simple, seamless form expressing movement and the
concept of endlessness and timelessness without a beginning, without an ending.”
“Everyone gets it,” Mr. Fisk said of his use of the sphere in a recent interview.
He completed the VW ball in 1999. “I don’t know why, but the VW ball keeps surfacing every few years on the Internet,” he
said.
The VW ball is in a private collection. Mr. Fisk, who was born in Vermont in 1970, has made other balls with auto themes:
a school bus, a green John Deere tractor, a drab brown U.P.S. truck and a white Mister Softee ice cream truck, complete with
lights.
“A U.P.S. guy saw the U.P.S. ball and stopped by the house of the owner,” Mr. Fisk said. “He thought it was a package ready
for shipping.”
His spheres come with windows and steering wheels. He does all the work using metal and glass fabrication skills he taught
himself. He has also sculptured a street ball, a sphere of asphalt marked with painted dotted lines. Mr. Fisk’s barn ball,
with wood painted red and a window, was used for the cover of the Phish album “Round Room.”
He has moved beyond the balls into new modes of sculpture. “The new theme for some reason seems to be garbage,” he said.
Among his latest pieces, shown at the Taxter & Spengemann Gallery in Manhattan, is a sculpture of a garbage can and another
of a garbage bag. PHIL PATTON