ROBERT GAYLOR ARTIST
I am devoted to and in love with the natural world and am fascinated with the sciences that observe, study and describe them.
Firelight, Polaroid photograph ( firefly exposing itself on raw SX-70 film ) 1976 ( Also Firefly Suite (see below) is a large scale film installation consisting of 3 separate 16mm projections,1976) See Films section.
Firefly Suite#1
( 16 mm film installation/projection ) 1976. Fireflies lighting on raw 16 mm film. 10 minutes. Silent. Film strips at right.
Firefly Suite #2 - not shown
( 16 mm film installation ) 1976. At dusk at meadow in a ring of trees. Fireflies lighting, timelapse fade to black with fireflies lighting . 12 minutes. silent
Firefly Suite#3
( 16 mm film installation ) 1976. Gallery scale two screen projection at 90 degrees. Expanding and contracting pure blue and yellow light from corner. 16mm film. 14 minutes.
Firefly Suite#4
( sound recording ) nocturnal insect voices. Played with FFS #3.
Firefly Suite#5.
Light box with custom rewinds for viewing film strips. Shown as gallery sculpture.
See at right.