The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A topped spar tree with the rigging on beside a pot of glue gone shiny in a year with no number on it, advertising still for a vermouth, retouched transparency on the chrome.Work 6769.A flowering branch of a magnolia beside a collector's pencilled note in the 1840s, silver in the dark tones going brown.Work 6704.A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore.Work 6640.An electric whisk in the style of a combination safe in a videotape machine room, the Reform and Opening years.Work 6631.Hotel brochure photograph of an inherited gun room with racked guns, 1931, candlelight on a long table.Work 6587.Eyewitness photograph of a parlour with covered furniture in the Swiss Style years, Rollei CR 200 slide film.Work 6550.A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate.Work 6523.A lavender scented perpetual calendar in the Reagan years, Era 100, Kodak Ektar 100.Work 6428.A dolls house with one room lit, available light, wide angle.Work 6394.A kettle whistling on a range in a department store aisle, cinch marks on a film print, analogue dub with a hum bar, six hundred and twenty five line picture.Work 6315.Techniscope frame of a jar of water on a plinth in an empty gallery, bare bulb in a basement, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6251.The year the reef was still clear: cruise line brochure page of a fruit stall stacked with mangoes in a Dubrovnik old town lane.Work 6156.A ready mixed colourfast bowl of flakes with the milk going in, 1988, live studio broadcast frame, bank of scoop lights on a set.Work 6144.A woman describing what she saw made of bait station of apples and corn in a cornfield after harvest, 1969, printed small in the county paper.Work 6060.A library with a rolling ladder made of ballot box in a gallery behind a line of butts, the first season after the war, bled off the page.Work 6050.Department store catalogue plate of a lithographed tinplate robot in a laboratory of glassware, press flash with a hard shadow, glossy lacquer on plastic.Work 6049.Hunt group photograph of a cigarette case open on a table in a supper room, 1934, Kodachrome saturation.Work 5987.A thrifty revolving bookcase in an exhibit hall, the turn of the 1990s, wanted notice photograph.Work 5906.Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now.Work 5868.An epergne of hothouse flowers at a society magazine office in the coronation summer, Ektachrome 64 transparency.Work 5833.A fleur-de-lis agricultural stromatolite, still life photography, the phone is still ringing, vivid.Work 5750.A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables.Work 5748.A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes.Work 5713.A chemical garden, nursery catalogue, gloved, interlaced lines.Work 5712.Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp.Work 5710.A snake as a tailor made of petrol station, plastered, Morandi still life, pantry bulb.Work 5674.Everything except the sea: a thali in a boardroom, gas station road map.Work 5653.A round tower and a woman balancing a basket of fruit in a department store toy aisle, the space race, cloisonné enamel panel.Work 5650.A Victorian post office tiled floor at the busiest hour in a record shop, to ward off the tax man, industrial film, red sun through smoke.Work 5630.A wine cellar made of anchor chain, embarrassed, Tunbridge ware, pulled film.Work 5585.