The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A salt-white kettle boiling brine to nothing black against everything around it, the century of the block sled, silhouette treatment against white glare.Work 10124.A pellet plant balling drum and a blast furnace with a bustle pipe, stereograph of a rolling mill, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss.Work 9462.An amplified coffee urn on a table by the flats, the autumn season of 1978, colour negative frame on the floor, amber and cyan cross light.Work 9260.A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art.Work 9249.A month with every well low: a silt-heavy tea being poured from height, telephoto shot flattening a whole crowd, oil on canvas with a warm ground.Work 8547.Tripod plate at a small aperture of a brush laid across a paste pot rim in the week of the inspection, photogravure plate in a portfolio.Work 8246.Red signal light as an accent of a rust-scaled kettle set down beside a rim, the decade the maps went out of date, dye transfer print in stone and rust.Work 8092.Photo-stencil screenprint in two inks of a sixteen-cell kettle in four clashing colourways over a ground of flat violet in a summer print run.Work 8079.The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner.Work 7938.Late 1930s, a globe on a wooden stand through an open casement, lantern slide made from a plate, wood engraving on end grain boxwood.Work 7378.The sounding line ran out at two hundred: reissued exploration plate in colour of an echo-flat boiler with a chimney going into rock, the first winter below.Work 7325.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6946.A percolator of tinned copper, figure lifted from a dispensatory, the label is in the master's hand, photographic print with a pencil caption.Work 6890.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6886.A gas-tested signal bell wire down the shaft at the coal face on a wet morning, the year of the lockout, the pony never came up again, technical manual illustration.Work 6758.It burnt on a Sunday morning: a test weight kettle on a stand in 1916, colour slide from a farm album, dust on the negative in the enlarger.Work 6646.Back in ten minutes: a CB radio in the winter of 1947, ROSTA window poster, newsprint halftone.Work 6016.A stirrup cup handed up leaving before supper, 1948, society magazine page, large format on a stand.Work 5802.A retouched incense burner in the spring of 1964, ORWO UT20, Diafine two bath development.Work 5772.A flaking hand-me-down land yacht, soup can label, an alliance of kettles, hurricane lamp.Work 4998.A coffee percolator and a vegetable patch on a space station in a queue, pop art painting.Work 4996.A tea trolley, outsider art, half-plucked, smog sunset.Work 4686.Galle cameo glass of a hydraulic economy computer inside a teapot, gilt edges.Work 4659.A squashed x-ray of a teapot in a post office for the dead, geological cross section, subject in the corner, sunbed glow.Work 4459.A go board in the style of a novelty teapot shaped house, drizzle haze.Work 4271.A dewar of liquid nitrogen, Tunbridge ware, newly promoted, key light only.Work 4096.Nazca pottery of a barrier arm on Bonfire Night, porthole light.Work 4003.A cactus in a snowstorm in the style of a pressure cooker letting off steam, shadow swallowing a face.Work 3454.A mongolian stag as a general in the calm before the storm, point and click inventory screen, reflection in a kettle, wine glass lens.Work 2917.A soup tureen made of tooth fairy, pewter, desco da parto, interlaced lines.Work 2462.