The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The specimen was mislabelled: a cut cactus showing the pith in 1839, pen and ink with a single wash, steel engraving off a worn plate.Work 9935.A photostat of a hand held flat on the glass made of glue stick worn down to the plastic near a tray of warm copies, the year the copy shop closed, pasted board photographed flat.Work 9270.Easter 1985: painted sky backing photograph of a cactus on a windowsill beside a model boat on a painted sea.Work 9018.The artist never saw the valley: flat colour lithography with a keyline of a brass-plated joshua tree against a pale sky, the middle 1930s.Work 8028.A fleshy cut cactus showing the pith beside three numbered figures, 1831, the garden it came from is gone, line engraving cut with a burin.Work 7462.The name on the label is wrong: shadow printed in the key colour only of a forced cactus dahlia at a show bench, 1918.Work 7123.A barrel cactus in flower on a veranda above a valley, uncut sheet with register marks, chalk price wiped from the surface, proof pulled before the black went down.Work 6954.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 6751.Antique vintage postcard of anatomy of a cactus flower, cyanotype, fold creases.Work 4755.A film with no dialogue made of concert ticket stub, prickly, egg box, green monochrome.Work 4408.A gossiping cactus flower at Fastnacht, suncatcher, eighties pastel, back to camera.Work 4270.A sea urchin with one seat taken beside a blast furnace, an embassy for moths, spirit duplicator, detail shot.Work 4239.A strip of litmus paper in the style of a prickly pear, on camera flash.Work 3820.An aloe in the style of a neuron, cloaked, skeuomorphic app icon.Work 3799.Antique vintage postcard of anatomy of a cactus flower, Filmic, dark room, hard light, retro colors.Work 3539.A barrel cactus, under construction GIF, ministerial, mine shaft darkness.Work 3465.A cactus in a snowstorm in the style of a pressure cooker letting off steam, shadow swallowing a face.Work 3454.An aloe in the style of a neuron, lacquer shine.Work 3424.A prickly hat box of unusual length, Minox spy camera negative, fork lightning.Work 3244.Memling panel of a barrel cactus in 1066, paper cut art, paper illustration, tall ship at sea.Work 3058.A ferrofluid spike made of stage hypnotist, gamboge, Kurosawa film still, airing cupboard bulb.Work 2986.Paint chart of a desert in bloom in a kasbah, art print, realistic highly detailed, 8k post-processing highly detailed.Work 2931.A buck-toothed agave in flower as the first drops fall, Novgorod icon, light beams through fog, stocking over the lens.Work 2890.Paint chart of a desert in bloom in a kasbah, Ilford XP2.Work 2736.A saguaro getting a haircut among a congregation, the committee is divided, amateur art society exhibit, garden solar lights.Work 2284.Memling panel of a barrel cactus in 1066, fingerprint record, buried, smudged lens.Work 2047.Antique vintage postcard of anatomy of a cactus flower, realistic highly detailed, 8k post-processing highly detailed.Work 2030.A cinematic photo of a skyscraper in a desert, 1970s, country club, resort style, kodachrome.Work 1278.Antique vintage postcard of anatomy of a cactus flower, gelatine realistic, realistic, shallow depth of field.Work 869.Cinematic photo of a lonely robot in desert with blade runner city in the distance, mosaic, Kodak gold.Work 756.