DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A settlement seen whole from the far rim outside a settlement cut into rock, after the rock ran out. Work 8854.
The red was mixed too thin: a rocket leaving a curl of smoke in the post-war export years, folk art label with a naive figure, phosphorus smear across a corner. Work 8695.
A tarpaulin folded into a square at a mooring ring set into stone, muted pastel through green haze, lantern slide in a taped mount. Work 8669.
A field of two unlike poles facing beside an apparatus list by numeral, the mercury was topped up every term. Work 8666.
The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.
A rocky islet crowned with pines in the style of a hare running across the waves among flowering plum branches, 1831. Work 8529.
One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire. Work 8483.
A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 8409.
Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 8407.
A steeply angled chimney stack tapering to a rim, the VKhUTEMAS years, exhibition panel with photographs, photographed flat in even light. Work 8396.
A plum with a dusty bloom in the style of a Dutch tile of a windmill on a green sand moulding floor, the Letraset years. Work 8282.
Cloud-wrapped slate-grey sledge runners for moving dressed stone, the winter the chain went dark, wide plate with the horizon on the lower third, ink wash on laid paper. Work 8176.
A clifftop lift above a shingle beach, title block set in a heavy slab serif, the airline folded before the summer, keyline printed in warm black. Work 7898.
The season of standing water: a hand print in clay on a trunk within a column of green smoke, silhouetted tower composition, warm filter on grey stone. Work 7813.
Black and white lineside snapshot of a work-stained coaling tower over a tender on a colliery branch in 1788. Work 7731.
A 1936 reprint: a lighthouse on a rocky point in front of a dresser of blue plates, nursery frieze manner in flat colour, watercolour wash over ink on cartridge. Work 7545.
Gouache study on grid paper of a water tower on splayed legs and a lattice tower spiralling upward, the years of the workers' club, letterpress on grey newsprint. Work 7529.
A salt-caked island of dark rock in a white sea lit from below and from above at once, three generations of salt cutters, extreme long shot of four small marks. Work 7369.
A crown-topped minaret above flat roofs beside an export stamp in two scripts, the middle 1950s, three-colour stone lithograph label. Work 7244.
A surveyed harbour plan with a mole and a mooring with the fields numbered to an award, 1779, aquatint sky over an engraved coast. Work 7210.
A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers. Work 7071.
A light-barred access ladder lashed to a tower in black lace over black velvet, the Age of Sail, long lens on a distant station. Work 7044.
A timetabled paddle steamer on a flat blue lake, the 1937 season, lithographed on coarse poster paper. Work 7028.
A column strung out over a mile below a crest smoking in the wind, the season the wells all held. Work 7027.
Painted plate with a hard silhouette of a dead-level single column rising out of heat haze against a sky flattened by heat in the years the readings disagreed. Work 6940.
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.
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.
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 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.
A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small. Work 6781.