Rob Cruickshank at Fly Gallery
Movie here
Fly Gallery: a tiny window space that predates the Drake, still showing art in the middle of Queen Street West youth trend fashion madness crazy party fun time. Rob Cruickshank: a guy who understands groovy optics, and knows how to wire circuits and make things go. Perfect combination.
Rob Cruickshank, Selectric (2010). Kinetic sculpture based on a rotating type ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, with stroboscopic illumination. At Fly Gallery, 1172 Queen Street West, Toronto, until January 31st, 2010. (Viewable 24 hours a day, but best seen at night.)
Does light flash onto the walls?
Hey M. Jean,
the flash does fill the widow space, but the heavy black curtains absorb and contain the light. this is quite effective in realizing the 'microcosmic' hallucinatory illusion. I really just want to hold the little glowing orb in my cupped hands and watch the beams of erie green light escape through my interlaced fingers. Me and the Rev. are enjoying it quite a lot.
um, that would be window, not widow. although 'widow space' is very poetic.
Thanks! It looks great.
It's pretty gorgeous in the day time too. (there's a lot of black drapery involved, looked like a widow space to me.)
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Rob Cruickshank at Fly Gallery
Movie here
Fly Gallery: a tiny window space that predates the Drake, still showing art in the middle of Queen Street West youth trend fashion madness crazy party fun time. Rob Cruickshank: a guy who understands groovy optics, and knows how to wire circuits and make things go. Perfect combination.
- sally mckay 1-07-2010 2:35 pm
Does light flash onto the walls?
- M.Jean 1-07-2010 3:51 pm
Hey M. Jean,
the flash does fill the widow space, but the heavy black curtains absorb and contain the light. this is quite effective in realizing the 'microcosmic' hallucinatory illusion. I really just want to hold the little glowing orb in my cupped hands and watch the beams of erie green light escape through my interlaced fingers. Me and the Rev. are enjoying it quite a lot.
- mnobody (guest) 1-07-2010 4:32 pm
um, that would be window, not widow. although 'widow space' is very poetic.
- mnobody (guest) 1-07-2010 4:35 pm
Thanks! It looks great.
- M.Jean 1-07-2010 7:20 pm
It's pretty gorgeous in the day time too. (there's a lot of black drapery involved, looked like a widow space to me.)
- L.M. 1-11-2010 6:09 am