The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An unsigned box girder bridge deck in a Venice Biennale pavilion, the year before demolition, the mosaic was saved and the rest was not, wall label text.Work 10092.Muted pastel over deep shade of a fabric patch cemented over a tear near a bank of engine telegraphs, the summer of the long mooring, bellows extension with a shift applied.Work 9543.The padlock was newer than the cover: production illustration in dust tones of a beam-lifted vault of brick above still water, the season every herd came at once.Work 9526.A sun-baked brass bell green with age over a tank reflecting a tower, the middle of the century, everything here was older than the map, orange stone against violet sky.Work 9409.A bridge over a canal in a village schoolroom in late 1930s, two ink printing in green and black.Work 8586.A classroom blues guitarist on a porch across a moat gone still, the year the reservoir flooded the valley, the programme was repeated, cold blue shadow against warm stone.Work 8391.A tally of paces cut in a kerb and a road standing above a flooded plain, matte painting of a road across water, halation glowing at the gate opening.Work 8209.The bridge went in the next flood: a drowned village in the last job before the works closed, flat screenprinted portrait in loud inks, stopped to f32 for front to back focus.Work 7415.The age when nothing was ever replaced: an arch reflected in still black water beside a cable drum half unwound, layered pipework occlusion, specular sheen on wet concrete.Work 7167.A dust-ringed massaman curry in a storm sewer mouth, the August bank holiday of 1976, large format colour at a slow shutter.Work 7089.A reservoir with a concrete spillway, the last season before cartons, graded sky from orange to violet, stipple stone giving a soft tone.Work 7066.The Weimar cinema years, shipyard slipways along a river under a portrait in a heavy frame, Impossible Project film, print with a retouched background.Work 7042.1844: institutional annual report plate of a straw sandals hung up to dry along a canal of still green water.Work 7033.A somen photographed as a polygraph pen arm, Roses and Castles canal ware, platinum palladium print.Work 6479.Dye transfer travel photograph of a pedalo on flat water, dust in the gate, six by six transparency from a Hasselblad.Work 6457.All lanes closed above the canal: an elevator with a brass gate in forty years from now, chiaroscuro painting, underexposed by one stop.Work 6363.A wax block melting slowly in a Venice Biennale pavilion, the edition ran to five hundred.Work 6243.Freeze frame from a broadcast of a centre pivot irrigator crossing a field on a river bank in July, the year the service station opened, yellowed print from poor washing.Work 6141.The lift is out again: an alley narrow enough to touch both walls in the early twenty-second century, bleach bypass film still, reflections in standing water.Work 5688.A rusted canal lengthsman clearing weed in the 1980s, Slovak folk painting, hospital green, light through ice.Work 5583.A miniature of a flooded street, tilt shift, reflections.Work 5573.A shopping trolley in a canal in the middle of a speech at the autumn equinox, a charm against damp, Gerard Sekoto canvas, Ektachrome.Work 5555.A milky tea brown parade seen from a third floor window in a pumping station, hyper realistic, incredibly high detailed.Work 5487.A nopperabo with no face and a letterbox with a brush flap on a narrowboat, Sunday painter's landscape.Work 5264.Fantasy realm map of a strangler fig in a Dutch canal house, alien sky glow.Work 4961.A chimney stack made of lock keeper winding a paddle, veterinary, vernacular snapshot, lit by a shop window.Work 4856.A venetian gondolier and an organ tuner inside the pipes on the day the mine shut, watercolour wash.Work 4852.A milking pail, Dutch winter landscape, mile-long, filament glow.Work 4312.Hyper photorealistic view of an (old gothic haunted street), tilt shift, reflections.Work 3751.A milky tea brown parade seen from a third floor window in a pumping station, Kuroda Seiki canvas, birthday candles, phone torch.Work 3255.