The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A faintly amused locust swarm behind a row of dark trees, the Gupta period, medical teaching lantern slide.Work 9976.Raking light across carving of a survey peg beside a wall among fallen blocks, the season the forest came back, 70mm print graded for haze.Work 9663.A clay woman in a poster paint apron with grease where a hand held it, the school term of 1965, animation cycle repeated four times, off air recording with a soft picture.Work 9627.The spring of 1957, a die-cut lighting shop in fingerless lace gloves, cyclorama painting.Work 9199.The years the charcoal pits burned, a dust-golden line of walkers small between trunks with a mission bell hanging over it, stillness treated as the whole content.Work 8841.A haze-greyed silt shelf built up against a base in the long wet age, cyanotype in a deep slate blue, pigment print on cotton paper.Work 8814.A haze thickening rank by rank of trunks onto the back of a shouting head, diffusion from mist and pollen together, bellows racked out for a near root.Work 8766.A hundred lifetimes of watching, a hacked path closing behind in dense jungle, grain heavy blow up, graduated green filter.Work 8645.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 8414.Near-monochrome palette with gold accents of a rime feathering an iron grille in the reign of the last keeper, wood engraving on end grain.Work 8367.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8088.1797: a lichen planted privet hedge of clipped flock, plate finished in nine colours, magenta creeping into the slates.Work 8009.Head printed over a squeegee streak of a cigarette held in flat red lips, a fingerprint set into the pink, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground.Work 7995.A figure in profile with a raised arm, overprint of red over black halftone, the press was hand-fed, uncoated stock with a rough tooth.Work 7934.The last sheet of the batch: cross-hatching in the deepest shadow of a roller repeated across a sheet between two rows of the same image.Work 7732.The mouth was printed a fraction too low: portrait printed in four sour colourways of a screenprinted bingo caller's head in hot orange, the print studio's busiest summer.Work 7698.A cream-paged schoolmistress at a blackboard, fourth edition of 1931, oil on a small canvas panel.Work 7623.The slogan was in the wrong language: vignette fading into the paper of a foil-stamped match head bursting into flame, the post-war export years.Work 7546.A shallow stream running clear over stone, a century without a road, sublime vista rendered through openings, cyanotype toned back to olive.Work 7514.Lifestyle feature on room service of a slippered woman putting a diamond in the soap dish, out of season and half the price, print mounted on board for a client.Work 7511.Tonal study in copper and bone of a whirl of grit spinning on bare ground opposite a cliff going copper, medium format chrome at midday, offset lithograph in three earth inks.Work 7429.A weed-grown silt-hazed pump handles worked in opposite time, the summer of the stone survey, scale of a figure against cut stone, aquatint with a dark ground.Work 7108.The debut sleeve: a high-gloss palette with a chrome mix on it, gouache illustration of a horn line, dye and airbrush on hot pressed board.Work 6974.A knitting pattern diagram, line art, graph paper.Work 5576.Aboriginal dot painting of a drowned valley years after the gold rush, overexposed pastels.Work 5524.Secretly relieved: an exhibition of a single raindrop over a smoky valley, Frederic Remington western scene.Work 5360.A crossword solver chewing a pencil made of punk with a safety pin earring, depression-era, Akseli Gallen-Kallela canvas, theatre ghost light.Work 5282.VHS tracking error of a chimney sweep's brush on a limestone pavement, Agfa APX 100.Work 4797.The last surviving example: a silage clamp in a mangrove swamp, darkfield micrograph.Work 4795.Light leak photograph of a marram grass before colour was invented, height chart backdrop.Work 4728.