The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A rain tank with a padlocked tap at a fuel dump out on the pan, the third year without rain, time-lapse frame, rack focus through the dust.Work 9987.Two shapes standing far apart on a flat, a season with no rain recorded, held wide with the subject dead centre, medium format chrome at midday.Work 9849.An exhaust valve rimmed with copper through a haze of raised silt, contact print on salted stock, sepia wash on laid paper, chromolithograph in seven colours.Work 9845.It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge.Work 9756.An unmarked mouth of a shaft in open ground along a trench polished smooth, the long silence, matte painting with a hazed monolith.Work 9544.Nobody agreed on what it was for: a half sphere sunk into a dry lake in the last of the deep soundings, three quarter view on an upright mass, pigment print on a baryta surface.Work 9463.A month with every well low: a silt-heavy tea being poured from height, telephoto shot flattening a whole crowd, oil on canvas with a warm ground.Work 8547.Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan.Work 8329.An airfield with one aeroplane, kodachrome, heat shimmer.Work 7969.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures and skeletons archival 16mm broadcast telelvision still kodachrome.Work 7806.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures and skeletons archival 16mm broadcast telelvision still kodachrome.Work 7641.A giant onion beside a coin for scale photographed as a strawberry runner pegged into soil, airbrushed bloom over a flat panel, varnish gone tacky on the cover.Work 7436.A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame.Work 7381.The dust years, a boot pit at the bottom of the leg under a portable auger, rotogravure section page, exposure set for the highlights.Work 7340.Isometric view of an apparatus of a cloche over a row of seedlings in 1797, pencilled caption under a small print.Work 6867.The geophysical year of 1958, an unlit air hose tended by hand recovered on the second attempt, cine film frame enlargement.Work 6659.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.A temporary trench in a dry lake bed, 1981, faded to a yellow cast.Work 6218.A list of numbers typed in a column on a dry lake bed, the early 1980s.Work 6103.A pipeline running across the pan at the edge of a dust storm, a century from now, editorial illustration, telephoto compression of a convoy.Work 5781.An airfield with one aeroplane, kodachrome, heat shimmer.Work 5724.A last-orders lunar rover being measured, cyanotype, colour noise.Work 5699.A chiselled ball pit on a farm track, chemigram, alarm clock red digits, S curve.Work 5566.A drought-cracked riverbed, Caillebotte street scene, cloistered, photographer's thumb.Work 5552.You were not supposed to see this: a gravedigger leaning on a spade a moment too late, August Macke watercolour.Work 5489.A moated widowed drought-cracked riverbed, airbrush painting, the flower rota, polarised sky.Work 5404.A slag heap, cinematic, concept art.Work 5268.A weighbridge with nothing on it made of set of jacks, half-finished, Hobbema landscape, hole punched light.Work 5252.The blooper: a Mars rover in a puddle, Acoma pottery.Work 5235.