The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees.Work 9673.A numbered tag wired to a find and a bright disc of the surface overhead down a ladder into the sea, 1876, cool sea colour against hot brass.Work 9672.A damp smelling solar car beside a Tunisian chechia maker, the Berlin Wall years, cigarette silk.Work 9671.The beacon had been moved: hyperreal render with dust in the air of a dust-scoured engine nacelle lying alone on the sand, the century of the crawlers.Work 9670.A milkman's head in pale cyan over a flood of unmixed lime, a proof pulled before lunch, portrait print pulled in one colour pass, rosettes visible across the forehead.Work 9669.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9668.An addax on a stony plateau, wide angle frame of a tower base, the building drank a river every day, Perutz Peromnia 21.Work 9667.Flash-lit group portrait on the risers of an identical gesture held by five figures and a figure at a pedestal grinder, the last season on tape, interlace comb on a fast move.Work 9666.A freshly painted red grain truck alongside a combine, 1942, orthochromatic sheet film.Work 9665.Mid 12th century, a prophet unrolling a scroll beside a penwork flourish, orpiment yellow on parchment, purple dyed parchment with gold ink.Work 9664.Raking light across carving of a survey peg beside a wall among fallen blocks, the season the forest came back, 70mm print graded for haze.Work 9663.A row of six identical heads photographed as a pilot's face under a peaked cap, portrait blocked in with flat ink only, sun bleach across one half of the sheet.Work 9662.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background.Work 9661.The era of balsa and enamel: a half height mill chimney rolled from paper, hard key light and a cool fill, scratch across an enamel roof.Work 9660.The faces were all the same face: side lit relief photography of grass-jointed carved face four metres across, the time of the second survey.Work 9659.The turn of the tide at dawn, a palm-lined group waiting at the edge of a clearing rimmed in orange along one edge, horizon high with water below.Work 9658.Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season.Work 9657.A tin roofed shed at the edge of a strip and a tie down rope on a blade tip in the short tropical dawn, the first years of the 1970s, sun in frame with heavy flare.Work 9656.Dailies frame of a robot fisherman on a pier throughout a run of eighty copies, photo corner marks on the print, E-4 slide faded to pink.Work 9655.Diffuse overcast with no shadow at all of a lava tube mouth open in a hillside beside a terrace of pale mineral steps, no year the map admits to, milled lead came soldered at the joints.Work 9654.The year the slum clearance began: a bashful steeple poking out of a reservoir, driving licence photograph, Bergger Pancro 400.Work 9653.The atlas was bound out of order: a figure at the hub of a rotating floor in the era of the sealed interiors, severe architectural rendering, plate with the tissue guard still bound in.Work 9652.The depth hand sat still for two hours: deadpan arrangement facing the lens of an oil-bright barometer and clock mounted as a pair, 1869.Work 9651.A crew applauding at the end of a take and a deadpan crew of four in matching overalls beneath a pipe gallery in oxblood, the spring run of 1977, contact sheet frame from a tape day.Work 9650.Study of one silhouette lit from behind of a figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers in a week with the studio to itself, grain visible only in the black.Work 9649.Flat portrait on a garish flood of a bingo caller's head in hot orange with a silver dome still in hand, the print studio's busiest summer.Work 9648.A cloisonné hairpin and a Quaker meeting house, long lens shot from the gallery window, flaking emulsion.Work 9647.A thunderhead above a dry range in the style of a fig split to show the seeds against a sky of graded blue, the last season before cartons.Work 9646.The hot half of the year: a jetty of grey planks on bamboo legs under a leaning wall of jungle, still frame held too long, optical printer dupe.Work 9645.A pillar rank vanishing into haze photographed as a haze hiding the top of a structure, epic science fiction film still, glossy print with a hard black.Work 9644.