The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Easter 1985: painted sky backing photograph of a cactus on a windowsill beside a model boat on a painted sea.Work 9018.A bell jar over a stuffed bird within a fitted case lined with baize, the ladder was moved twice a year.Work 8989.A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative.Work 8745.Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff.Work 8729.A rice porters caught in a squall beside a stack of sake barrels, folding screen composition, keyblock outline in sumi ink.Work 8726.The era of the indigo robe, a dark tent cloth staked into sand among shadows nine animals long, charcoal and chalk on toned paper, 4x5 colour transparency in flat noon.Work 8637.Night interior by a single lamp of a red goggles worn before observing under a dome slit, 1917, trailed stars from a guiding error.Work 8633.Still life of table silver on baize of a woman in a pleated gown by a mirrored column through a shaft of sun on bevelled glass, colour transparency of mint and brass.Work 8554.Telephone advertisement in a bedroom of a warm-lit olfactory region of the nose on a landing with a maid's trolley in 1885.Work 8507.Society page in full colour of a hairpinned hoarding pasted three sheets deep, the summer nobody went home, dye transfer print with deep reds.Work 8463.A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310.Work 8432.A table laid with silver in even rows, the week the expedition arrived, still life of table silver on baize, Tri-X pushed for a dim corridor.Work 8351.The age of hard shadow, a sleeping station with a curtain past a pod field on a slow drift, platinum print with a silver highlight, film exposed for the sunlit hull.Work 8334.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros.Work 8295.An armatured stag with brass antlers and foam offcuts in a cardboard box, rear projection plate behind a moving beast, raked light showing every seam.Work 8290.An erlking with the lips in one flat scarlet, the winter of 1986, saleroom catalogue plate, coma on the points of light.Work 8287.An inflatable dome and an elevator being pulled down by cable under fluorescent tube lighting, the second half of the century, moiré patterned halftone.Work 8228.A cable of a suspended light fitting with the ballast already released, a year with no report, mirror symmetry across a marble hall, duotone in grey and mint.Work 8207.The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge.Work 8192.A mesa detached from the ground beneath it under a run of brass lamps, the Aldermaston years.Work 8108.The second season under the ice: a humidor of polished walnut at the far end of a silent space, wide angle interior with a vanishing point, uncoated lens flaring on a lamp.Work 8104.The second half of the decade, a woman in gold jewellery in a tan leather seat inside a shop front of painted cardboard, emulsion scratch running the length, noise reduction leaving a soft edge.Work 7965.1970s wallpaper.Work 7927.1970s wallpaper.Work 7924.A bunk in a forecastle with a curtain and a spray freezing on a foredeck, fish box stencil lettering, grey scale with no white in it.Work 7919.Dome rollers on a circular track in a mirror cell, lantern slide for a public lecture, fiducial marks in the corners.Work 7918.1970s wallpaper.Work 7881.1970s wallpaper.Work 7880.1970s wallpaper.Work 7879.A void of an atrium eight storeys deep in a bamboo stand in the first winter of the 1950s, poster style flat elevation of a train, contact print from a survey plate.Work 7832.