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GENERAL ELECTRIC COMMISSION | COLLECTION: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON

In 1982 General Electric Plastics Group commissioned Tom to create a piece that would somehow signify the Group’s corporate identity. Tom worked at General Electric Plastics laboratories to fabricate GENIC DORAN DIVIDER – SENTINEL, assisted by a team of technicians, scientists and research engineers (including Dr. Dan Fox, a pioneer in bullet resistant products and the inventor of LEXAN resin) in developing a large-scale manufacturing technique for the final version.

" I was interested in much more than simply assembling a sculpture and walking away, satisfied that I had lived up to my commission. Rather, my primary interest was capturing the emotional and psychological content of the building and its people, developing a work of art that would emanate the vision and consciousness of the organization, proud and confident....its history and relationship to the community as a leader. The work is a part of me, just as it was an integral part of the building and of GE Plastics. It represents a commitment to bringing art and science together and is tangible evidence of something that separates humankind from all other life forms, that magnificent gift that allows us to dream, question, conceptualize and create – the human mind.”

The Work is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.