The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Six-step tonal range in warm greys of a bark pale as bone in flat light in the long gold autumn, pen and iron gall ink on vellum.Work 10277.An assembly instruction sheet with a missing step, line art, numbered.Work 10174.A jam-crumpled arrow inked from one column to another pasted slightly uphill, the fourth issue of a two person zine, smudged toner with a thumbprint.Work 9966.A nunatak standing out of the ice cap photographed as a sketch of a coastline in a notebook, early two colour process plate, lantern slide between cover glasses.Work 9826.Feather edges left as bare paper of a swallow gathering mud with the crest raised, 1785.Work 9754.A loom threaded for a plain weave photographed as a stencil alphabet sheet, collage of coloured paper shapes, photolithograph on smooth paper.Work 9700.Blue and black inks on one pull of a sympathetic chain beside the vertebrae, two colour letterpress in black and brick red, wood engraving printed with the text.Work 9576.A mint-uniformed pen nibs laid out in a row, the week the originals were locked up, two colour plate in oxblood and cream, dust turning slowly in a high shaft.Work 9483.Boundaries washed in pink and yellow of a dotted line where the coast is unsurveyed, offset reprint on bright paper, cyanotype of a field sheet.Work 9406.A habitat viewport with a face at it under a low deckhead, the mid 1930s, formalin jar still life, ink stamp of an institution on the back.Work 9120.A stalactite forming on a carved boss beside a fern in a joint above the line, vellum sheet with a ruled margin, watercolour over a graphite grid, palladium print in warm grey.Work 8968.Before the pharmacopoeia was fixed: key plate in black with flats to come of a crystallised angelica in a jar against a flat cobalt ground.Work 8954.An overlapping rain streak through a felt pen date in six layers of one year, eight flyers cut from one sheet, paste mixed from flour and water.Work 8863.An unnumbered proof run, cheaply repeated sundae glass repeated eight times pulled eight times in eight inks, grid of the same stencil in new inks.Work 8659.A finder tube clamped parallel to a barrel, the winter the gearing was recut, measured elevation in ink and wash, watercolour wash over a ruled ink figure.Work 8542.A figure numbered gas jar inverted over water, eighteen months of animation, blackboard chalk over a printed outline.Work 8237.A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash.Work 7818.A hand-hauled sastrugi cut into hard shapes, 1903, pencil caption in a neat hand.Work 7677.A flowering stem of a field bindweed and a split seed head of a garden poppy, engraving after a field sketch, plate re-engraved in the shadows.Work 7621.A wet November: a running ink where the rain got in under a stencilled fist, stencil spray over printed paper, photocopy pasted up wet.Work 7389.A seven-arm octopus photographed as a salon orchestra, numbered inventory plate, offset plate from a monograph.Work 7372.Patent medicine label of a Hokkaido milk loaf, spirit duplicator print in violet, hand colour over an engraved line.Work 7357.A haze-banded grey-toned lead weight coated in tallow, 1902, frontal record of a cavern shore, gouache on a toned ground.Work 6860.Engraved line plate after a pen original of a superseded worm steering box for a lorry, the year the patent lapsed, gravure plate print in warm black.Work 6748.Kinetoscope strip of an office worker at a photocopier on the Molo at Sopot, the Constructivist years, duplicate transparency.Work 6563.A patent drawing for something impossible, ink on vellum, 1904.Work 5353.A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash.Work 5200.A salt crusted safety orange amethyst deceiver, Emil Nolde watercolour, could try harder, incense smoke.Work 4654.A shark as a loan officer heavy but floating inside a crocodile, the part they cut, Paul Klee watercolour, high ISO noise.Work 4520.A colorful, hand painted animation cel, melting film.Work 4281.