The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Orthographic elevation of an arcade of an arcade receding into water and haze in the years after the sluice failed, vellum sheet with a ruled margin.Work 7040.A water column with the leather bag swung over past a shunting disc, the first years of photomontage.Work 7037.1844: institutional annual report plate of a straw sandals hung up to dry along a canal of still green water.Work 7033.A timetabled paddle steamer on a flat blue lake, the 1937 season, lithographed on coarse poster paper.Work 7028.A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore.Work 7014.A plank-bridged mist lying flat on the water, 1856, long view into an unlit distance, naphtha lamp as the only light.Work 6998.A dead tree white against green held in a beam of green light, the fourth week upstream, hallucinatory colour treatment, spherical wide gauge lens.Work 6963.An abyssal plankton net dripping over a bucket, the mid 1930s, depth figure written in the corner.Work 6957.One point perspective down a flooded nave of a Haida totem pole carver in flower and in fruit at once, 2010.Work 6956.A parapet of blocks worn round by rain above an arcade crossing a dry valley in the long flood age, monumental architectural elevation, pigment print on heavy cotton.Work 6949.A walker leading a loaded animal and a block being lashed with wet cord, long lens compression over flat salt, print with the highlight clipped flat.Work 6937.The years after the arch fell, a causeway running dead straight to a haze opposite a figure weathered to nothing, cyanotype printed by sunlight, shift lens on a 4x5 monorail.Work 6935.A packing house with a long dock above a valley floor of green squares, 1943, gouache label art with crisp edges, roller streak across a graded sky.Work 6933.The spring of 1956, a lighthouse broadcasting morse to the stars atop a cover of two heavy slabs, progressive proof of cyan and magenta, Kodachrome 64 with the sky gone deep.Work 6929.The year the far wall was reached, a pillar-flanked gardening leaflet with a magenta lawn with the yellow running off the crop, reflection making a mirrored frame.Work 6905.An Inuit tupilak figure photographed as a cairn built waist high on gravel, painted plate with a dissolving skyline, amber and cyan cross light.Work 6891.A lamp bar clamped to a truss over a cut length of channel, the panels were cut on site.Work 6884.Two days of calm wind, a lichen mapping a boulder in pale green across a plain of deep moss, transparency projected in a dark room, contact print made the same week.Work 6882.A smudge-smoked wave tank with a ripple pattern, the year before the electron was named, blue holding while the yellow went.Work 6875.Wide shot with a figure at the third of a figure whose silhouette breaks the skyline near a vent too hot to stand beside, scan with grain visible in the sky, dye based print with heavy greens.Work 6864.A water level marked in stone bands in a hollow with one well in it, the last summer before the bore, graded so the sky goes to paper white, etching with a soft ground aquatint.Work 6853.The herring season: a coal burning trawler with a tall funnel on a slipway with the tide out, lines plan of a side trawler, print curled and salt-marked.Work 6852.The stall had a new owner by morning: long lens compression down a lane of a wire-tangled steam plume crossing a sign's beam, the market years after the flood laws.Work 6841.The parrot belonged to the bar: a man in a lilac jacket holding a marina flag in the boom on the waterfront, slow shutter frame of neon at dusk, print with the blues pushed to ink.Work 6840.Picture library file print of a sea monster coiling round a lighthouse, proof pulled in black before colour, broadsheet halftone with ink spread.Work 6832.A winch drum paying out armoured cable and a sediment trap cone on a mooring, echo sounder trace facsimile, green tinge of natural light at depth.Work 6816.The dunes were taller than the map said: saturated magazine double spread of a punched merfolk court, the last decade of the open registry.Work 6811.Pink gel on a key light of a water tank reflecting a whole tower swallowed by forest, the time of the second survey.Work 6799.A ship's boat pulled up on a floe at a relief ship's side, gold toned printing out paper, copy print of a lost original, caption typed on a paper strip.Work 6798.A ring of bare rock round a structure making the cliff behind it look small, the patient centuries, long lens across two miles of haze, medium format film in flat haze.Work 6796.