The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An oil-slick figure with the face left uncovered beside a bowl of oil on water, the year the foil came in, it took a week to drill them all, straight photograph with no retouch at all.Work 10158.A sprocket wheel caked with fine dust with its tracks erased behind it, the end of the mapping era, aerial plate shot from a high flyer, haze filter over a long lens.Work 9595.A wide-lapelled relief valve venting into a shaft beside a taped floor mark, the years the level numbers ran out, photograph printed through a halftone.Work 9044.A dish array in a ring on flat hardpan with the plate still wet, before the dune sea was mapped, popular astronomy magazine halftone, fiducial marks in the corners.Work 8960.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 sounding wire through a hole in the ice, the early 1900s, published narrative frontispiece, ink title along the lower edge.Work 6651.An inspection pit a foot deep into a culvert of brick under a line, the years of three engines.Work 6635.A loupe over a strip of negatives, slide projected on a wall, the negative has gone missing, headlights raking a field.Work 6174.Letterpress halftone of a gittern at Infinity, Perceptol fine grain, grey sky with no shadow.Work 5955.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 5506.A telephone ringing in a desert in the style of a moth man on a bridge, steam from a manhole.Work 5318.A weighbridge with nothing on it, overcast, wide angle, concrete.Work 4713.An autumn leaf made of pumice in an unknown port, half remembered, tondo, glitter glue.Work 4530.A two-storey pigeon grey storm drain, silent film still, left out for the fairies, anglerfish lure.Work 4173.A prison-issue slate grey tannery, advent calendar, from the bottom of a biscuit tin, symmetrical.Work 3743.Geological cross section of a trig point in an airlock, handwritten notes, intricate details.Work 2762.A weighbridge with nothing on it, overcast, wide angle, concrete.Work 2486.