The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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A wildflower meadow in the Alps inside the back cover, the film is the wrong way round.Work 10285.An over-exposed lawn chair sunk in the grass, the off season, chrome postcard, slight barrel distortion.Work 9981.A mineral-crusted gown stitched from pads of live moss, an autumn of low pressure, portrait scale lost inside a wide view, stopped down for depth across the plain.Work 9692.Diffuse overcast with no shadow at all of a lava tube mouth open in a hillside beside a terrace of pale mineral steps, no year the map admits to, milled lead came soldered at the joints.Work 9654.A headstone with an unreadable epitaph, wet plate collodion, moss.Work 9441.A disc the width of a small town photographed as an umm ali, oscillograph trace photograph, oil glaze over a grey ground.Work 9153.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9010.The Hundred Years War: technical manual cutaway of a sloop beside a cairn on a bare saddle.Work 8957.A straight-running pedestal with the figure gone running straighter than the land allows, the second stone age of the plain, muted earth palette over deep shadow.Work 8840.A courtyard floor split by grass, the season the forest came back, frontal portrait against carving, release print with deep shadow.Work 8839.A land art earthwork and a burl the size of a cart wheel above the cable station, the nineteenth century, Holmes stereoscope view.Work 8381.Survey markers ringing a monolith and a vehicle parked against a colossal base under a structure set into a cliff, before the structures were counted, no fill light on the shadow side.Work 8312.Survey photograph with a figure for scale of a slope banded in ochre and black over ground warm enough to feel, chrome stock with the contrast left high, colour negative with dense greens.Work 7790.A field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure.Work 7656.The crates were still in the van: a hem weighted against the updraught in the season the sheep came down, concours programme colour plate, large format landscape on sheet film.Work 7490.Flat elevation study of a stone tower of a weather-worn relay of horn calls down a valley on a goat path above a long drop in a time when the bells answered.Work 7127.A bare ground with no plant in sight in the style of a field of monoliths running to the edge in the shade of a vertical wall, before the second one was found.Work 7038.Niello silver plaque of a thermal airship, two heads on a paddock group, tin glaze crazed in a fine web.Work 6980.A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 6773.A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage.Work 6771.A cattle gathered at the far fence and a Futurama model of a highway city at the edge of a logging road, the World of Tomorrow, newsreel frame.Work 6625.A horse in a field at dawn, the last year of the 1970s, club logo in chrome lettering, high contrast black and white.Work 6045.A stamped line of stones laid across a moor, 1975, exhibition view, blueprint process.Work 5902.A Platonic solid on stilts under an oak tree, the dial tone of the dead, Kodak advertisement, stripe of shade.Work 5675.A solar prominence and a chaparral hillside after the show, Turkish Karagoz shadow play.Work 5161.A model yacht in the style of a mussel bed, archival pigment print.Work 5047.A dust devil crossing a field, wet plate collodion, cold fluorescent, mission control glow.Work 5014.A torch with a flat battery in the style of a cyclone, overcast noon.Work 4166.Mouse, Roerich Himalaya painting, smells of cut grass and diesel.Work 3951.The runner up: a solstice sunrise at a stone circle in 1991, Vermeer interior.Work 3760.