The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A barrel cactus in flower on a veranda above a valley, uncut sheet with register marks, chalk price wiped from the surface, proof pulled before the black went down.Work 6954.A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art.Work 6947.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 6751.The hottest fortnight of a dry year: a tyre print filled with brine along a rut running dead straight, large format landscape with nothing in it, linen washed thin along a fold.Work 6703.1939: an antenna array on a desert plain under a plexiglass canopy, black and white science fiction film still, hard flash on chrome.Work 6633.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 6626.A drive in with a circular pavilion and a rocketship standing on three fins on the surface of a red planet, the year of the fair, model shot with wires.Work 6551.The long dry: a cloud moving over the deep end at a desert motor court, faded album page, frozen dust at a high shutter speed.Work 6522.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 6483.A mechanical bank on a desert proving ground in the Great Society years, Ektachrome 200.Work 6451.A suntanned high rise hotel above a bay in the middle of a dry lake bed, the decade after the grid failed, the next tank is three days out, Ektachrome transparency.Work 6426.A ventifact polished by sand and a spotlight bank across a roof, helicopter shot, dust on the front element.Work 6350.An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400.Work 6325.Tracking shot still of a tyre tracks across a playa and a fabricator cutting plate with a torch, the far side of the collapse, rolling shutter skew.Work 6308.A dry lake bed in white glare at the foot of a rusted water tower, 16mm blow-up frame, bounce off a salt pan.Work 6294.A scavenged haboob rolling over the horizon out where the salt meets the sky, the years after the water ran out, the wind takes everything eventually, cross-processed photograph.Work 6279.A temporary trench in a dry lake bed, 1981, faded to a yellow cast.Work 6218.Pulp interior illustration in line of an invitation printed on thin paper, slide mount with a typed label, desert light at midday.Work 6122.A list of numbers typed in a column on a dry lake bed, the early 1980s.Work 6103.Film loop projected on a wall of a barchan dune with a sharp crest, resin coated paper print, Tri-X in a gallery.Work 6056.A net curtained dry lake bed with sailing stones with a road atlas on the bonnet, the year the fridge arrived, oblique aerial photograph.Work 6038.A robot carrying a woman across a crater in a stable yard, the atomic age.Work 6026.1953: a bubble helmeted helmet reflecting a red planet, exploded diagram in line, enamel paint with a hard sheen.Work 6012.A kitchen of tomorrow with a push button wall outside a drive in in 1935, sunlit desert with hard shadows.Work 5960.A desert proving ground with a bunker on a launch pad at dawn, the pavilion lasted eighteen months.Work 5864.A hardpan flat with no shade at all and a sedan cut down to a bare chassis on a bridge over a dry river, a future with no spare parts, contact sheet frame.Work 5831.Cinematic photo of steam punk robot in desert with blade runner city in the distance, a house on a cliff, horizon zero dawn style, photography.Work 5751.A cinematic photo of a skyscraper in a desert, kodachrome, cold light.Work 5749.An articulated tanker on a salt flat at the base of a radio mast, the refinery still burns.Work 5618.A robot with tread feet on a desert proving ground, 1959.Work 5610.