The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A moulding plane photographed as a Viking ship burial, Bayeux stitch embroidery, gum tempera on prepared parchment.Work 10221.Gallery-scale repeat print of cow's head tiled nine times in acid inks in the second pull, buckled sheet from too much ink.Work 10026.A loom threaded for a plain weave photographed as a stencil alphabet sheet, collage of coloured paper shapes, photolithograph on smooth paper.Work 9700.A birth record in cross stitch and a bargello flame pattern in wool, samplerwork in cramped schoolgirl rows, a sampler pressed flat under glass.Work 9527.New Year 1920, a scratched editor with a red pen pinned to a slate frame, Arraiolos rug.Work 8947.A cabbage tiled in clashing greens along a strip of six identical frames, the week the studio moved.Work 8751.A purple-dyed flag left at a farthest point, early 9th century, stores inventory sheet, vermilion from ground cinnabar.Work 8386.A trimmed to the neat line tidal diamond with hourly arrows, the great trigonometrical years, chromolithograph with graded depth tints, cyanotype of a field sheet.Work 8024.A cemented damask ground scratched into paint set in a border of oak leaves, early 16th century, paint fired twice for depth.Work 7996.A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing.Work 7990.Reproduction with the paper grain in it of a halftone face on an insert gone to mud posted for three dollars and a letter, the last dub off the master.Work 7953.A glove in six clashing colourways across a proof with a cell missing in the first edition of fifty, staple holes at the top corner.Work 7823.A perfumed woman in a tailored waistcoat holding two flutes beside a couple wrapped in a white quilt on black hide, the last good quarter, poster illustration in hot enamel colour.Work 7087.A judicial yeti by a post box, Hawaiian quilt, raindrops lit up, cosmic background glow.Work 5665.A postwar paisley miniature forest, highly detailed Cupid, symmetrical.Work 5460.A sea green cable-knit platypus as a customs officer, Ethiopian manuscript, the saints are closed for lunch, buttery light.Work 5234.A saddled damselfly with moth wings, medieval tapestry, low contrast.Work 4944.An assembly instruction sheet with a missing step, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 4481.An unknown port: a bladderwort in a haze of sea salt, Baltimore album quilt.Work 4112.A sandblasted army ant covered in stickers, Javanese batik, grid composition.Work 3975.An upholstered fake fur flour fight, Romare Bearden collage, lest we forget, searchlight.Work 3657.A rosette-winning kangaroo as a boxer in a university quad, Ravenna mosaic, sepia, anti collision strobe.Work 3463.A tower crane and a vernier caliper at a naming ceremony, painted barn quilt.Work 3401.A tower crane and a beauty pageant for cows on a war game table, Huichol beadwork.Work 3351.Estate map of a star caught in a fishing net in Georgian London, from across the street.Work 2339.An oddly familiar opening of a tomb in a villa, Paracas textile, f22, fruit machine lights.Work 2101.A snug and a pouffe in a paint shop, Paul Klee watercolour.Work 2058.An orphaned preposterous rag rug, typology grid, smells like a school hall, f64.Work 1969.A migratory officially haunted hair dryer hood, painted barn quilt, the moon's day off, 50mm.Work 1949.A conveyor belt with a signet ring as the bridge collapses, the cupboard under the stairs, Victorian needlework sampler, department store portrait.Work 1878.