The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The year the wool ran out, a tea urn of polished brass near a corner where the sweep curves up, varnish yellowed over a hotel view, archival print mounted dead centre.Work 6652.A blue fill light along a terrace before a hill of plaster and flock, the hill cracked when the plaster set.Work 6647.A petrol pump in four colourways and a subtropical glasshouse, over the shoulder of an examiner, letterpress plate with a caption block.Work 6641.A pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in a motel courtyard, the bicentennial summer.Work 6630.A funnel raked back against the sky on a rooftop terrace, demolished the following spring.Work 6585.A cooling tower in reinforced concrete above a river valley, charcoal study of a mass, Portra 160 negative.Work 6521.Lithographed travel poster of a palm fringed propliner parked at a palm fringed field on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1972.Work 6520.1931, a jalousie window above the deck beside an oleander hedge, Ektachrome 64, pencil on vellum.Work 6469.The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing.Work 6464.An atrium with glass lifts, 1928, perspective corrected photograph, split grade printing.Work 6461.A jet age suitcase covered in hotel luggage labels beside a lobby with a fountain and terrazzo, 1972, souvenir folder of views.Work 6452.A chromed atomic power plant with a cooling stack, the late 1930s, Kodachrome transparency.Work 6441.Chantilly lace of a coupon bought sea witch's garden of polyps on the day the rain stopped in Christmas 1999.Work 6427.A courtyard with a shallow pool in a panel housing district, the tenants were moved out in stages.Work 6405.A presentation rendering pinned to a board and a terracotta panel with a stylised palm, pencil and wash study, tempera on panel.Work 6402.The year the reef was still clear, a passenger stepping onto the tarmac in sunglasses in a Samarkand tiled courtyard, super eight home movie film, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows.Work 6306.An open air rum drink with fruit on a stick with a paper parasol in the glass, the first jumbo season, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement.Work 6280.A planter's punch on a rattan table at the rail of a ferry, travel film frame in sixteen millimetre, haze over a bay in the afternoon.Work 6267.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 6255.A market stall of bootleg electronics under a broken skylight, colour film still with heavy grain, rim light through steam.Work 6249.A wall of trophies in a panelled den in the style of a leaf floating in the deep end in a fenced backyard, the Eisenhower years.Work 6230.A reflection of a palm in the water and a pool party nobody came to beside an ice machine, the summer of 1976, Ed Ruscha style photograph.Work 6193.A top lit verandah along a modernist school in 1932, selenium toned print, fill flash in a dark lobby.Work 6187.A bowl of noodles under a heat lamp in a courtyard hung with laundry, ENR silver retention, single hard key with no fill, push processed one stop.Work 6150.A long suffering wood sorrel in the Asuka period, Ektachrome 160 Tungsten, Ilfochrome Classic.Work 6148.The year the first computer arrived in the office, an atlas of countries that move on a pebble beach at Sochi, bromoil transfer, chroma bleed from video.Work 6140.A sectional elevation with hatching in the style of a hammock strung between two palms in a marble lobby with a fountain, the package tour years.Work 6125.A ventilation fan behind a grille photographed as a laundry line strung between towers, wire service photograph, printed dark for reproduction.Work 6120.Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit.Work 6063.A transistor radio in a duty free case at a Torremolinos hotel pool in the package tour years, in flight magazine photograph, Kodak Ektachrome E-6.Work 6052.