The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The Taisho years: a cormorant fishing by torchlight inside a circular medallion, flat colour inside a firm outline, woodgrain showing through the sky.Work 10169.The geophysical year of 1958, a hand-lashed decompression chamber porthole at three thousand fathoms, schematic cutaway of a submersible.Work 9545.Diagram plate with numbered call-outs of a derelict with its array torn away in the age of the slow freighters, fine grain stock with a long toe.Work 9328.Machinery portrait on a plinth of a suited pair reflected in a curved bulkhead in some year after the last window was sealed, negative exposed for the highlights.Work 8640.A printed programme for a sky show on a wooden globe stand, the operator knew the script by heart.Work 8326.A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth.Work 8235.A biosphere dome made of beluga blowing bubble rings by the only lit window on a face, the winter of 1968, hand tinted engraving in pale washes.Work 7109.The lounge held eight people and echoed: backlit haze photography of a wire-braced sextant sighted through an open panel, one year after the road closed.Work 7012.A nerveless French angelfish with the type running upward, the week the deck ate a tape, etching with a fine needle.Work 6782.A tunnel boring machine in an igloo, Polaroid emulsion lift, shallow depth of field at f2, an X-ray fogged roll from an airport.Work 6462.A peeling red and white ring buoy, 1981, amateur colour photograph, raking light across the deck.Work 6444.Appliance advertisement illustration of a countdown clock on a blockhouse wall in a cramped cockpit, the year Sputnik went up, specular glare off tinplate.Work 6088.Press photograph from the period of a porthole window in a curved white wall down from London, 1927.Work 6015.A jumbo jet in a back garden and an explosion in a chemistry lab in an airlock, cutout silhouette photo.Work 5560.A Burry Man, cinnabar lacquer, gravy brown, overhead projector.Work 4463.Nazca pottery of a barrier arm on Bonfire Night, porthole light.Work 4003.An airborne iron lung in the morning mist, Frederick McCubbin canvas, door peephole fisheye, moonbow.Work 3582.A seventeenth-century iced-over hospital night shift, Dymo tape label, for the lonely lighthouse keeper, cine lens.Work 3563.A cryptographer at a rotor machine made of pileus cloud, viridian, reconnaissance photograph, 28mm.Work 3125.A red blood cell, enamel painting on copper, unexploded, television shop window.Work 2659.An oasis in the style of a porthole, sunbreak.Work 2631.A grandmother's school uniform maroon pothole filler, macro photography, the hold music, blacklight.Work 2498.A detailed and award winning photo of a interior of luxury retromodern spaceship, beautiful face, symmetrical face.Work 2076.A sweltering refrigerator with magnets in a mole tunnel, Constable cloud study, Ektar 100, riverside morning.Work 2062.A renaissance portrait of a badger in a ruff, oil on panel, dark ground.Work 1941.