For a recent series of prints, artist Gordon Cheung uses images of seventeenth-century Dutch still life paintings taken from the online archive of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. These images are publicly available and out of copyright, therefore free for anyone to access and use. Using an open source computer algorithm which sorts the pixels, Cheung ‘glitches’ the images, making them appear as though they are dissolving.

Cheung’s morphing of the image and the selection of the genre of Still Life constitute a commentary on economic boom and bust, the first of which, Tulipmania, was recorded over 300 years ago in the Dutch Golden Age.

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