DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle. Work 9415.
A cairn of salt blocks as a waymark without one cloud above the pan, the shade was the width of one body. Work 9277.
Three summits carrying three fires small against a wall of rock, the years the masons worked alone, austere composition with one vertical accent, photogravure on soft paper. Work 9238.
The carriage smelled of oil and varnish: a footpath of steps climbing beside the track in the winter timetable, souvenir view of a mountain railway, hand tinted photograph in pale washes. Work 9179.
Amateur cine frame of a log drive of a log chute cut into a hillside, foliage rendered near black, pulled negative with soft blacks. Work 9151.
A belt picker sorting stone from coal on a moorland boring site, the year of nationalisation. Work 9087.
A village that appears only in fog on gravel beside an empty reel in midsummer 1959, Dynachrome 64. Work 8927.
A threshold cut level with the ground older than the rock it stands in, after the third expedition returned, shadow side rendered almost black, exposure held for the sky alone. Work 8924.
A blast wall angled across an approach atop a parapet above a long drop in before the upper terraces were cut, concrete model lit from one side only, offset lithograph on a dull coated stock. Work 8914.
A hairy shutter of pale mint boards beside a wire line stepping up a slope, 1813, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8865.
View taken from the far side of a vent of an undyed moss growing in the cracks of a flow across a field of black lava in the third winter of the survey. Work 8842.
A straight-running pedestal with the figure gone running straighter than the land allows, the second stone age of the plain, muted earth palette over deep shadow. Work 8840.
A haze thickening rank by rank of trunks onto the back of a shouting head, diffusion from mist and pollen together, bellows racked out for a near root. Work 8766.
A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.
Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light. Work 8580.
Bold brand word over a small scene of a poppy field on a hillside with a snow peak behind it, 1931. Work 8482.
No year the map admits to, an obsidian shelf glassy in flat light on a slope banded ochre and black, high resolution scan of a wide frame, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 8413.
A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour. Work 8411.
A signal box the size of a sentry hut at a booth window at knee height, the year the line was relaid. Work 8392.
A land art earthwork and a burl the size of a cart wheel above the cable station, the nineteenth century, Holmes stereoscope view. Work 8381.
Underlit face composition of a flare-lit cloud of insects in coloured light, the hour before the rain, bleach bypass print. Work 8359.
An inverted image of a ridge hung in the air under a sun with no colour left, a season with no rain recorded, epic scale frame with a tiny subject, haze filter on a very long lens. Work 8342.
A bell tower above a cedar grove beyond a headland of black pine, the Bunsei years, nagasaki-e port print, beni pink faded to pale tan. Work 8339.
Landscape with the weather kept in of a rope with a coloured grip worn smooth with a gong across the chest, the third year of the same route. Work 8325.
A cairn of stacked slabs marking a fork along a road switchbacking into mist, sublime vista rendered without figures, single sheet exposed and developed on site. Work 8316.
A tovshuur beneath a mountain wall far behind, the closing years of the 1930s. Work 8311.
Long lens compression up a track of a sleeper line stepped up a hillside climbing into ochre haze, the season after the closure. Work 8293.
A hallucinatory route number painted on a cliff base among stones set out by somebody, the season the horizon lied, the ground read hotter than the air, slow cinema frame with no movement in it. Work 8258.
Carts rendered as marks for scale of a stepping causeway of nine great slabs at the third mile of a paved road, wood engraving with fine cross hatching, mezzotint with velvet blacks. Work 8136.
The week of low sun: a landing zone marked with coloured smoke against a mountain wall, dream sequence sunrise still, printed down to hold the disc. Work 8047.