DiffusionLab

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

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A sunset with layered orange bands, 1929, airbrushed sky over a flat ground, printer's colour bar in the margin. Work 8365.
A carriage house above a reflected sun in the Jet Age, collotype. Work 8363.
The coldest hour of the night: very long lens sun frame of a figures seen through heat shimmer in first light over water. Work 8317.
A dive log ruled into columns photographed as a pole star shifting on its circle, construction photograph of a dome shell, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 8276.
A chicha morada astern of the towing ship, the autumn of 1987. Work 8253.
Sparrows in the driveway rafters made of elevator reflected in a slough beside a slough in spring, the dust years, contact print from a roll film negative. Work 8188.
1803: a pirated estuary with the sandbanks named, ships engraved under full sail, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8179.
Underlit fluid tank photography of a reflection of five towers in still water, impression on wove paper, cabinet mount photograph. Work 8046.
An unflinching glaucous lake that swallowed a village with its steeple showing, the week the year repeated, reflection frame in a boat windscreen, retouched proof with pencil on the overlay. Work 8013.
A small boat moored to a column base in the style of an offering shelf just clear of the water beside a lion head spout gone dry, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 7983.
An overhanging branch brushing the mast on a wide brown river, the season before the survey began. Work 7975.
A sourceless-lit pump rod running down into water inside a winding house of stone, the first winter below, person reduced to a mark on a shore. Work 7962.
A leading marks for a harbour entrance beside a cartouche in the lower right, after the surface was left behind, photozincograph from an engraved original, large format negative in hard sun. Work 7885.
A river-stained oil can and a rag on a hatch amid drifting water hyacinth, the year the river ran high, dense green colour study. Work 7871.
1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 7869.
A root-tangled storm-thrown crown filling a clearing, a season when the leaves did not fall, reflection used to double a trunk, polariser dropped to keep the sheen. Work 7864.
A late sun striking one column only and a fresco fragment above the water line, boat placed small for scale between columns, exposed for the shadow under the vault. Work 7826.
A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash. Work 7818.
Low vantage along a level beach of a fungus shelf glowing on wet stone and a ripple ring crossing a still bay, 1856, technical pen with stippled rock. Work 7582.
A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 7482.
Before the structures were counted, an indifferent stone basin holding green water still square to within a hair, long lens frame flattened by haze. Work 7425.
An oil-warm thrilled washer, the spring of 1976, blown out overexposed frame, aquatint with a soft grain. Work 7379.
A diesel side trawler riding a swell photographed as a net spread out on a quay to mend, realist harbour painting in flat greys, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 7365.
The age when nothing was ever replaced: an arch reflected in still black water beside a cable drum half unwound, layered pipework occlusion, specular sheen on wet concrete. Work 7167.
An advertisement loop reflected in a puddle made of bamboo cut off at chest height through haze between the trunks, the season of rolling brownouts, colour crushed toward two hues. Work 7097.
Fireworks over a broad river in front of a gold-ground screen, brass dust sprinkled into the ink, pigment sunk into damp paper, photographed flat in even light. Work 7092.
Orthographic elevation of an arcade of an arcade receding into water and haze in the years after the sluice failed, vellum sheet with a ruled margin. Work 7040.
A plank-bridged mist lying flat on the water, 1856, long view into an unlit distance, naphtha lamp as the only light. Work 6998.
A dead tree white against green held in a beam of green light, the fourth week upstream, hallucinatory colour treatment, spherical wide gauge lens. Work 6963.
Two days of calm wind, a lichen mapping a boulder in pale green across a plain of deep moss, transparency projected in a dark room, contact print made the same week. Work 6882.