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Barbara Buckner 芭芭拉．巴克納
Barbara Buckner: Selected Works Ⅰ—Hearts 芭芭拉．巴克納：選作（一）──心
1979
Hearts is part of Barbara Buckner’s compilation Selected Works I, along with Heads and Millennia, two other works completed between 1979 and 1981. Buckner began experimenting with video and computer image-manipulation technologies in the early 1970s. The three works direct her techniques towards evoking and exploring what the artist has described as ‘spiritual undercurrents’. They are all silent, focusing attention on their visual rhythms.
In Hearts, Buckner develops sequences of repeated and processed imagery related to the heart as both body part and idea, including branching patterns and a generic heart symbol. Often infused with vibrant colours, the visual elements pulsate with varying intensity. Horizontal lines move in irregular cycles, recalling the display of a cardiac monitor. These elements sometimes appear in front of distorted background images—a house, a line of trees, an expanse of water. In a 1985 interview, Buckner explained the work as depicting energies in the psyche, which she portrays in Hearts as a ‘magnetic landscape’. Her approach unites a variety of figural and abstract components into a pictorial language that is both universal and electronic.
In Hearts, Buckner develops sequences of repeated and processed imagery related to the heart as both body part and idea, including branching patterns and a generic heart symbol. Often infused with vibrant colours, the visual elements pulsate with varying intensity. Horizontal lines move in irregular cycles, recalling the display of a cardiac monitor. These elements sometimes appear in front of distorted background images—a house, a line of trees, an expanse of water. In a 1985 interview, Buckner explained the work as depicting energies in the psyche, which she portrays in Hearts as a ‘magnetic landscape’. Her approach unites a variety of figural and abstract components into a pictorial language that is both universal and electronic.
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