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Sylvia de Swaan, Keeping it Out, 2007, scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, On The News , 2008, scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, The Persistence of Memory, 2006, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, It was 3p.m on the 23rd of November, 2007, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, On the News, 2007, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Murder on Sixth Avenue, 2009, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Firearm, 2007, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Let It Burn, 2007, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Great Spirit, 2010, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, On the News, 2006, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, On the News #2, 2007, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, In Cyberspace, 2009, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, JFK departures, 2007, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Flight #78, 2007, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, FLIGHT, 2010, diptychs from scanned negatives - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Schuyler Street Crossing, 2006, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Oriskany Boulevard, 2005, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Genesee Street Tracks, 2008, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Backbone of America, Utica, NY, 2008, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Schuyler Street Ghost, 2007, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Halloween #2, Whiteboro, NY , 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Halloween, Whitesboro, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Brian Be Safe, Whiteboro, NY, 2008, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Broad Street, Utica, NY, 2006, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Laundry, Whitesboro, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Affordable Spas, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Wake Up Happy, Utica, NY, 2008, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Sleep Comfort, Yorkville, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Washington Court Demolition #2, 2006, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Washington Court Demolition, 2007, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Utica/Pompei, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Puppies 4 Sale, Utica, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Available, Utica, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Basketball hoop, Whitesboro, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Trackside Shrine, Frankfort, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Graffiti Tea Party, Utica, NY, 2008, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, O Not Cross, Utica, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, The Marsh, Utica, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Junkyard Car, 2007, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Route #49, Marcy, NY, 2008, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Security Camera, New York Mills, NY, 2007, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Smoking Gun, 2006, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Dead End, West Schuyler, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, No Remorse, Rome, NY, 2009, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Small Town Victory, Cassville, NY, 2010, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Flight #4787, 2009, archival inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, cartography, 2009, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, The War Game, 2009, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Prague to Bratislava, 1990, GSP or archival inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, The S Bahn, Berlin, 1994, GSP or archival inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Bucharest to Cluj, Romania, 1994, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Prague Station, 1990, scanned color slide - inkjet print, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Bratislava Station, 1990, GSP or archival inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Mass Gravesw, Iasi, Romania, 1996, GSP or archival inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Remains of the Tree, 2009, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, The Past Lurks in Shadows, 2009, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, The History Lesson, 2009, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Bucharest 1994, 2009, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Cluj to Timisoara, 2009, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Terezin, 2009, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, The Portal, Czernowitz/Chernivtsi, 2008, GSP or inkjet, variable
Sylvia de Swaan, Ghetto Walk, Cehrnivtsi, Ukraine 10/8/09, 2009, archival inkjet print, variable
 

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A series of diptychs that explore the intersection between public and private domain and how politics and world events reverberate in our lives no matter how far from the “action” we are. I’m interested in the interplay between truth and fiction and how meaning is shaped and altered through juxtaposition and editing.

 

“Sub-version” is about terror, surveillance, mass media, post-millennial anxiety, virtual reality, shadowy threats and ominous rumors.

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Along The Tracks is an exploration at the peripheries of the former manufacturing districts of Central New York. It’s about the archeology of post-industrialism as well as an expression of my abiding interest in transience, memory, and the markings of history that leave marks on the landscape.

 

 

<“Return” is an exploration of my personal history and a meditation on memory and war. It consists of a series of journeys through Eastern Europe to retrace trajectories my mother, sister, and I traversed as refugees at the end of World War II. I'm interested in the construction of narrative and the cinematic juxtaposition of still images - using the voyage as a metaphor for a movie, or a narrative thread that leads one through life.>

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