Terminal delicately handles light and dark, manufacturing spatial and temporal awareness in the viewer’s imagination. The focal point of the work is the inverted polychrome triangle. Sandwiched between two larger triangles, one blue and one black, this rainbow slice helps to orient the viewer in time and space. As if driving a train emerging from a tunnel, the viewer, when focusing on the colorful triangle, is fully aware of the present moment and keenly looking for a glimpse of what will come. When trapped in the overwhelming canyon of blue and black, the viewer’s eye turns to the triangle of color for orientation.

Charles Schorre was born in 1925, the small south central Texas town of Cuero, about 30 miles northwest of Victoria. In 1948, he graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BFA. Soon after graduation, Schorre set his roots in Houston. He taught at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and at Rice University. His tenure at Rice would last twelve years. By the late 1970s, Schorre was leading outdoor figure drawing workshops in Ingram, Texas. Schorre, never satisfied with one medium, worked as an illustrator, painter, and photographer. In 1979, Mobil Corporation awarded the artist a grant to work in Saudi Arabia. Schorre was named Texas Artist of the Year in 1986. In the same year, he was honored with the City of Houston Mayor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts. In a 1997 review, author Peter Brown remembered Schorre fondly writing, “Charles Schorre, even at seventy-one and burdened with Parkinson’s, was one of the youngest people that I have known. He died, still open and still working, far too young and far too soon in the summer of 1996. His death, it seemed at the time, would leave a void that only memories of him and his art could begin to fill.”