"Works that really challenge our understanding of the photograph, like Zoë Sheehan Saldaña and Matthew Swarts, push the ways people think of the image. Sheehan Saldaña works with appropriated digital images and produces them with a digital sewing machine. Like Sheehan Saldaña, Matthew Swarts’ also turns to the internet to appropriate images. Simple internet searches for keywords such as "sex," "love," and "death" bring forth a visual language that Swarts reconstitutes into his work. In the process, he manipulates and prints his images onto media ranging from towels to paper bags using cheap desktop printers. High quality scans are made of the finished low-tech inkjet printouts, and then printed with the best printer and paper possible. This work questions ownership of the images and focuses on the process of printing digitally, embracing the imperfections in the low-tech prints by painstakingly reproducing them in the large exhibition prints..."

Excerpt from Digital Transitions/Selections from the Light Work Permanent Collection
by John Mannion