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The Lenticulars
In 2017, collaborating with photographic artist Anna Tas, Burko created her "Lenticulars:" animations that appear to stream colored fluids across a circular field. These mysterious images invite multiple associations- we might be looking at cells through a microscope, at marine life through a submarine porthole, or at glaciers melting into the ocean.
Burko combined the techniques of painting, video-photography, and scientific technology to express metaphorically her experience of the planet, from microcosm to macrocosm, as an organic whole whose stability is now under threat from climate change.
She produced a lenticular by mixing acrylic pigment (sometimes sand and charcoal) with baby oil and liquid dish soap, moving this viscous mixture around, then capturing its flow in fifteen still frames. These were looped to simulate animation, and interlaced into a single printed image via specialized computer software. A lenticular lens applied to the surface made the circular disc appear to move. |