The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An assembly instruction sheet with a missing step, line art, numbered.Work 10174.A crocodile carrying hatchlings in its jaws, suzani, she had two books going at once, pen and ink on heavy cartridge paper.Work 10130.A bureaucratic note left on a kitchen table, the mid 1970s, available light night frame, Eastmancolor faded to magenta.Work 10040.Volumetric glow with no visible source of a lead weight coated in tallow, platinum print with silver greys, ruling pen and two grey washes.Work 9998.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.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.Wax engraving for a textbook figure of an exaggerated blue pencil laid on a proof, 1820, chromolithograph on thin coated stock.Work 9373.A wrong-coloured hair dryer in four flat panels with one cell left as bare paper, an unnumbered proof run, screenprint with the ink sitting raised.Work 9025.A pinned timekeeper with a stopwatch at the rail, New Year 1981, Plus-X on sheet film.Work 8631.Operating rule book illustration of a fireman filling the tender by hand, coarse newspaper halftone, selenium-toned print.Work 8348.1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge.Work 8142.Ruling pen border with corner flowers of a grocer weighing sugar on brass scales and a bird nest with four speckled eggs, a 1936 reprint, tipped in colour plate with a tissue.Work 8035.Logarithmic paper with unequal spacing of a copper light along a whole ridge above a strip of metal matting, Y2K, single lamp exposure with a reflector.Work 7799.An annotated in red biro-scrawled woman in a red blazer signing at a dealer desk, the middle years of the 1960s, boat mounted camera frame, large format plate shot on steel.Work 7796.A hand-hauled sastrugi cut into hard shapes, 1903, pencil caption in a neat hand.Work 7677.A rubber skinned brass dividers measuring a step in eighteen months of animation, film can marked in grease pencil, colour gone warm in the dupe.Work 7508.Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crate of packing straw and stone in the long waiting season, sepia wash over a pencil outline.Work 7351.A goods guard writing up his journal at a wayside goods yard, the winter of 1963.Work 6951.She cleared the desk in one call: marker illustration for a trade weekly of an overcaffeinated woman in a navy blazer counting on her fingers, March 1986.Work 6913.The school term of 1965, a thumbprinted plasticine suitcase with two matchstick clasps with a spare head waiting on a tray, primary colour set photographed flat.Work 6761.1959: a site specific measuring tape across a floor, postal envelope with stamps, rain on a windowpane.Work 6597.A certificate of authenticity in a frame and a filing cabinet as an exhibit, institutional critique wall text, tripod at a fixed height each time.Work 6561.A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.An affidavit signed at the bottom never printed at full size, 1991, paperback book cover plate, Kodachrome II.Work 6100.A knitting pattern diagram, line art, graph paper.Work 5576.Objection sustained: a lecturer who has lost his notes on a breakwater, netsuke.Work 5562.A lost drover moving cattle through a town in a space capsule, distemper on linen, photorealistic, wet leaves shine.Work 5340.Stage photography of a bee as a secretary on a works outing, black border print.Work 5339.