The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A sand-blasted Jordanian Petra guide, the turn of the millennium, Von Dutch style pinstriping, acrylic on a sand primed panel.Work 10125.Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out.Work 10063.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 9838.A shimmer-edged band of silver where the ground should be in a hundred years of the same weather, 4x5 transparency in full glare, 70mm print struck for a huge screen.Work 9803.A surface pitted by years of blown grit in the style of a truck in faded mint with brass lamps beyond a haze horizon of flat ground, four months of evenings in 1969.Work 9736.A road cut through a rock spur under sand drifted over paving, graduated filter across the far mist, oil on panel with thin glazes, slight halation around the lit edge.Work 9682.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 9388.A dry wash crossing a service road toward a horizon of desert ranges in 1897, uncoated stock soaking up the ink.Work 8950.A machine at rest with blades drooping under a wash of red dust, exposed for the sky and nothing else, archival positive with a hot sky, veiling glare across the horizon.Work 8827.A survey team laying out a baseline across a plain of dark gravel, after the last team went home, reflection of sky on a smooth flank, digital plate finished at 6K.Work 8777.A two inspectors either side of a cordon rope past a marker driven into the dust, cold shadow against hot ground, wide gauge frame scanned at full width.Work 8551.A sleeper-bound llama on a high altiplano road, the late 1920s, flat-tint poster illustration, lithographed on coarse poster paper.Work 8528.Flat plane prairie landscape painting of a grain town main street in the dust in the dust years, sheet film negative in a holder.Work 8493.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 8423.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 8414.A man in a bomber jacket carrying a boom box amid a scatter of dark gravel, the last years of the overland crossing, palette of bleached white and deep ochre, peel apart instant print.Work 8364.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 8019.Cross-hatched shadow under leaves of a stagecoach on a dusty grade, graded airbrush sky in three passes, ink starvation in a large solid area.Work 7930.A cam follower on a planet drive under a projection dome, 1937.Work 7792.Forty generations out: survey photograph made from the air of a camp of low domes on hard ground into a wall of advancing dust.Work 7778.A block standing alone on open hardpan and a lift shaft with its doors removed at the edge of a deep road cut, the fourth construction decade, static frame with a symmetrical mass.Work 7076.A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art.Work 6947.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 6751.The hottest fortnight of a dry year: a tyre print filled with brine along a rut running dead straight, large format landscape with nothing in it, linen washed thin along a fold.Work 6703.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 6626.A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 6623.The long dry: a cloud moving over the deep end at a desert motor court, faded album page, frozen dust at a high shutter speed.Work 6522.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 6483.A mechanical bank on a desert proving ground in the Great Society years, Ektachrome 200.Work 6451.Tracking shot still of a tyre tracks across a playa and a fabricator cutting plate with a torch, the far side of the collapse, rolling shutter skew.Work 6308.