The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A flower decked hotel with a swim up bar in a courtyard with a fountain, the first jumbo season, flights from regional airports, airline poster in gouache.Work 10241.An open-air pool at Saltdean and a sanatorium staircase down to the sea, Free Cinema style documentary frame, thumb over the corner of the lens.Work 10002.An iron balance with agate bearings and a copper still with a worm tub on a bench dusted with powder, 1633, plate reused with the letters changed.Work 9907.A crowd cheering a car through the pool bend in the style of two drivers arguing beside a wrecked nose at the top of the hill in the town, the last flat twelve season.Work 9886.Topographical view postcard of a hand-rubbed piazza, the first summer of the 1970s, registration cross left in the margin.Work 9516.An afternoon that did not end, a rimstone pool ringed in white beside a pool with a level surface, soft rim and a sharp centre, large format negative of a relief.Work 9504.A pool with a perfectly level surface between two matched rock pillars, nobody found where the light came from.Work 9147.Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought.Work 8886.A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows.Work 8497.The middle term: architectural interior plate in flat light of a courtyard fountain dry in a stone floor across an acre of polished stone.Work 8406.A dive log ruled into columns photographed as a pole star shifting on its circle, construction photograph of a dome shell, tungsten balance gone warm.Work 8276.The ferry was requisitioned that autumn: oasis palms beside a still pool in the first postwar summer, poster with a ruled red route line, four pin holes at the corners.Work 8063.A gravel-floored tool rack with outlines painted behind beside a pool with a level surface, the year of the fourth cavern, presentation plate for a learned society.Work 8014.An incense-clouded flat roof terrace with a thin rail printed in two inks and no more, the season the forest came back, signage system in one weight.Work 7875.A spa colonnade with palms in tubs on a quay of pale stone, the 1937 season, brochure cover in flat colour, airbrush over a masked frisket.Work 7480.A crowd waving hats over the armco, helicopter frame over a bay, the pool was heated for no reason, cross processed frame with a cyan shift.Work 7100.A soot-flecked flicker-lit laundry strung above the row, some October a lifetime from now, painterly matte over a live plate, anamorphic 35mm with heavy halation.Work 7003.A group at a long table under an awning and a player mid-smash above the net, fence detail figure in a catalogue, blueprint of a yard boundary.Work 6918.A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows.Work 6872.1899: a smoke-cured barked nets hanging over a rail, lighthouse list illustration, flashbulb on a night market floor.Work 6817.A figures filling jars in turn on a coping stone worn to a curve, the well was where the map said.Work 6714.A pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in a motel courtyard, the bicentennial summer.Work 6630.A funnel raked back against the sky on a rooftop terrace, demolished the following spring.Work 6585.Watercolour architectural rendering of a second-hand chlorine floater shaped like a duck beside a kidney-shaped pool in the late 1960s.Work 6558.A shadow of a diving board under a fibreglass patio cover, travel agency photograph, Newton rings from a glass mount.Work 6544.Saturated colour brochure photograph of a pavement cafe under an awning with fruit speared on a stick, the Concorde years.Work 6511.A guitar trio beside a pool in an upper deck lounge, the hotel opened two seasons late.Work 6494.A courtyard with a shallow pool in a panel housing district, the tenants were moved out in stages.Work 6405.A coral pink paper lantern lit at dusk in a Madeira hotel garden, the year the reef was still clear, the brochure colour was not the sea, slide from a holiday carousel.Work 6389.A bone-white pool ladder half in shadow behind a sliding glass door, the long summer of 1977, square format snapshot.Work 6385.