DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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Matte painting with a live foreground of a counter of dark polished mahogany still warm from the pan, before the dune sea was mapped. Work 8444.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 8423.
A man in a bomber jacket carrying a boom box amid a scatter of dark gravel, the last years of the overland crossing, palette of bleached white and deep ochre, peel apart instant print. Work 8364.
A grit-blasted doorway cut into the side of a dune, the third survey century, frame line printed slightly low. Work 8330.
The third season at the site: a lamp-washed observer kneeling to touch the slab base, dead symmetrical group composition, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 8250.
Ultra wide composition with two thirds sky of a salt-stiffened column of figures crossing a dune crest, a week of unbroken white sky, five perf 65mm stock rated slow. Work 8203.
A keyed hermit crab wearing a gramophone horn beside the scrutineering bay, the Mali empire years, machine minder at work photograph. Work 8165.
Archival copy of a fragile plate of yucca stalks on a dark slope over a range of bare hills, 1897, blueprint of a dome section. Work 8160.
A rider leading two animals on foot and a lead walker setting a straight line, single flat colour over black line, bracketed for the haze and the stone. Work 8050.
A ridge after ridge to a white sky photographed as a guide pointing at an empty horizon, hyperreal render with grain in the air, dye transfer print in indigo and sand. Work 8038.
The artist never saw the valley: flat colour lithography with a keyline of a brass-plated joshua tree against a pale sky, the middle 1930s. Work 8028.
A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 8019.
Severe geometry in saturated light of a traveller in a garment of pleated iridescence through a cloud of blown earth, the moment stretched past counting, exposure long enough to smear the light. Work 7951.
Concept illustration in flat ochre of a monolithic survey stake driven into hardpan beyond a ridge many miles off in the years the maps stopped agreeing. Work 7940.
Cross-hatched shadow under leaves of a stagecoach on a dusty grade, graded airbrush sky in three passes, ink starvation in a large solid area. Work 7930.
Environmental portrait in leathers of a grease-blacked astronaut on a red desert plain, the August number, solarised print from a lab error. Work 7908.
Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light. Work 7894.
A light curve plotted point by point in the style of a dust devil over a valley floor at a lifting sling, the late 1890s. Work 7829.
A cam follower on a planet drive under a projection dome, 1937. Work 7792.
A bone white branch planted upright in sand, costume study of a wind filled garment, the robe was the only thing that moved, anamorphic negative with a flared edge. Work 7782.
A column drum half buried in sand, 1864, cutaway of a helmet and breastplate, sepia wash on laid paper. Work 7713.
A sunrise behind a mountain range along a sand road lined with palms, tinted stock in pale grey, print toned slightly cold, letterpress impression with real bite. Work 7542.
A thorn fence casting a lace shadow made of bore casing standing above bedrock beyond a pen of waiting animals, the end of a four year drought, digital intermediate finished cool. Work 7475.
A shadow running over pale sand across a huge orange sky in the morning after the rain stopped, horizontal blue flare streak. Work 7404.
A hollow between dunes with a camp in it and a sand smoking off a sharp crest, backlit train rimmed in white light, pigment ink on a cotton sheet. Work 7396.
A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame. Work 7381.
A palm-fringed signal box with a lever frame at a desert halt with one palm, the 1931 winter season, diagrammatic route poster. Work 7255.
A block standing alone on open hardpan and a lift shaft with its doors removed at the edge of a deep road cut, the fourth construction decade, static frame with a symmetrical mass. Work 7076.
Long lens compression across a flat of a well head ringed with poured concrete and a sealed desert suit standing in open sand, the quiet centuries, offset lithograph in four earth inks. Work 7039.
Deep in the century of the pyramid: pre-visualisation frame of a low sun mirrored down a canyon of towers under bunting of cut felt triangles. Work 6962.