The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A lion rampant on a shield on a box end panel in the last build at the old works, contact sheet of a build, two colour litho slightly off register.Work 6912.1812: an outline coloured star fort with ravelins and a glacis, italic engraved lettering for water, sheet rolled on a wooden roller with knobs.Work 6910.A bee-hived student's face in poison turquoise, a proof pulled before lunch, line block reproduction.Work 6904.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 6902.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6886.A flock lawned half height terrace at the back with a foil puddle at the kerb, the age of the exhibition layout, enamel colour under photofloods.Work 6881.A spare heads on a strip of cardboard before a painted sky flat, he was posed for a week in one stride.Work 6869.The parrot belonged to the bar: a man in a lilac jacket holding a marina flag in the boom on the waterfront, slow shutter frame of neon at dusk, print with the blues pushed to ink.Work 6840.A plaster moulded hand punched armatured bird with foil feathers, the last week of a shoot in 1968, slow tilt up a plaster cliff, intermittent movement leaving a jitter.Work 6830.A furniture catalogue sofa with a cyan edge in the style of a lighter fuel tin with a doubled flame beside a slipped register mark, the spring sale season.Work 6819.Registration off by half a frame of an exposure meter held against a clay face by a stream of blue cellophane, the first colour series of 1969, splice bump every few feet.Work 6802.A bathing hut with striped panels on a sandy shore at low tide, I coloured it in with a pencil.Work 6794.A nerveless French angelfish with the type running upward, the week the deck ate a tape, etching with a fine needle.Work 6782.A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 6773.The school term of 1965, a thumbprinted plasticine suitcase with two matchstick clasps with a spare head waiting on a tray, primary colour set photographed flat.Work 6761.The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows.Work 6744.An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph.Work 6720.An open door with nobody in it with the bill open in song, the second sitting, Kaiserpanorama view, 65mm negative with fine grain.Work 6667.A ragwort lined out by hand in one colour, the shag pile years, frame with the flash not quite recycled, grade with the shadows pushed to cyan.Work 6653.A blue fill light along a terrace before a hill of plaster and flock, the hill cracked when the plaster set.Work 6647.A floating hospital in the style of a snake shedding its skin past a bank of white lockers, the coldest hour of the night.Work 6642.A rocks glass with a twist of lemon peel laughing at something off camera, the filter tip years, full bleed magazine page, two point perspective from the corner.Work 6628.A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate.Work 6610.The camera ran out: an ice cream van on the promenade in 1985, Soviet sanatorium poster, back-lit by the sea.Work 6602.Engraved glass goblet of a badly framed single line token instrument at a marina slip in the autumn of 1964.Work 6595.A spinning weather-beaten chip van with the hatch open, 1975, carnival ride catalogue page, hand-held at a quarter second.Work 6590.A double exposed California poppy, the Expo 67 summer, an incident meter reading.Work 6583.A dentist's waiting room, fluorescent light, wide angle, magazines.Work 6581.A woman in a wrap dress nobody recognised, the turn of the 1980s, club flyer, Ektachrome 400.Work 6566.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands.Work 6557.