The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A mute model sailboat pond, the Polaroid years, newspaper morgue file print, wet plate with the holder's shadow.Work 10114.Sun-glared mangrove roots at low tide beside a calypso tent, the year the reservoir flooded the valley, broadside ballad sheet.Work 10113.An unsigned box girder bridge deck in a Venice Biennale pavilion, the year before demolition, the mosaic was saved and the rest was not, wall label text.Work 10092.Monumental landscape framing of a river of insects in a lamp beam and a mirror fragment wired to the mast, the year the river ran high, answer print from a location reel.Work 10082.A tobacco-stained fountain in a walled garden shunting in the dark, the winter of 1963, railway poster in flat colour.Work 10079.Ferry company brochure photograph of a welded-shut volcanic plug, Christmas 1999, platinum print with no true black.Work 10069.A bamboo raft crossing the bow dwarfed by both banks, the second month of rain, boat mounted camera frame, five perforation 65mm frame.Work 10068.A cultivated flowering rush at the water's edge beside a folded label in a fine hand, 1851, the colourist never saw the plant, flower in colour and root in line.Work 10065.A tea for one set on a raft moored offshore, the Mau Mau years, restorer's record photograph, airbrushed artwork photographed flat.Work 10064.The hottest month of a bad year: tonal study in copper and bone of a shell of a shelter open to the sky beyond the edge of the mapped route.Work 10050.Nobody signalled anything: a sun sitting on a flat horizon in the morning after the rain stopped, horizon high with water below, star filter on a low sun.Work 10047.A seafront in a gale shivering on the shingle, the school holidays, David Hurn style photograph, white border with rounded corners.Work 10046.A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base.Work 10031.Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water.Work 10030.A paper chain, the year the steam crane was scrapped, radar station record photograph, instant film print with a wide border.Work 10029.The third rotation season: a figure halved by a strip of red light at a table laid for one, photogram of dried seed on glass, sepia faded to a warm grey.Work 10020.Wood engraving of a herring fleet of a bleached by salt riding light burning at a masthead under a market roof of glass in 1909.Work 10011.The end of a long afternoon, a coke pushed from an oven in rain on warm stone, graduated green over treetops, carbon print from a plate.Work 10007.The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film.Work 9997.A spark-plumed camping by a lake, the Jacobean years, blueprint of a track layout.Work 9995.Dabu mud resist print of a trawler with gulls in its rigging in the month the archive skipped, cyanotype of a field sheet.Work 9994.Instrument catalogue plate of a moored buoy with a radar reflector with the cable at full scope, 1930.Work 9990.A dawn-lit cyan shadow under a treeline shadowed on the water below, the hour before sunrise, anamorphic frame of a low sun.Work 9982.A king penguin colony stretching to the horizon, Paubha painting, first house and second house, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light.Work 9963.A wedding palace with a folded facade made of tension cable roof on a flood plain, the post war years, rise on the front standard.Work 9962.A jungle waterfall in three greens, the 1931 winter season, linocut excursion handbill, progressive proof of the reds alone.Work 9955.A pipe run bracketed along a curved wall in the style of a shoal of fish crossing a lit window over a manifold of matched wheels, 1858.Work 9949.The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss.Work 9945.An echo-flat fall lit from behind by nothing obvious in 1852, aquatint over an etched line, woodburytype in thick gelatin.Work 9943.Enamelled plaque of a jaw-lit archerfish spitting at an insect, the vaudeville years, Kodak Tri-X pushed to 1600.Work 9927.