The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A summer with the sun behind cloud: vista with one bright garment in it of a crater lake flat and grey among low mounds of old tephra.Work 10290.Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water.Work 10233.Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water.Work 10030.The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon.Work 10016.The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film.Work 9997.The upper floors were never opened: competition illustration in flat wash of an implacable cooling stack venting into dry air, the fourth construction decade.Work 9959.The colour arrived before the sound: film still of a smoke sequence of a shell-hung smoke crossing a shaft of sunlight, the closing 1960s.Work 9708.An autumn a hundred summers ahead, a badged smog sea with tower tops as islands with a landing pad strobing above, optical composite with a painted sky.Work 9027.A water tank on a wooden trestle on a dome catwalk rail, developer streak down the frame, photogravure of a nebula plate, dense sky fog across a corner.Work 8731.An ash falling through a light beam behind drifting green smoke, the smoke chose a direction.Work 8717.A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence.Work 8694.Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water.Work 8678.A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner.Work 8607.Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light.Work 8580.A figure at the lip of a fuming crater below a ridge of black cinder in the season the sheep came down, gallery print behind non reflective glass.Work 8522.One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire.Work 8483.A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour.Work 8411.A wristbanded light well dropping sixty floors, the years after the tower fires, panned exposure at a sixtieth.Work 8300.A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side.Work 8138.The week of low sun: a landing zone marked with coloured smoke against a mountain wall, dream sequence sunrise still, printed down to hold the disc.Work 8047.An insect-clouded sodium coloured sun low over the reach rimmed in sodium orange, the second month of rain, horizon centred composition.Work 7714.Figure centred in a vast frame of a smoke sitting in three flat layers and a smoke filling a clearing to head height, the years nobody kept count, available light under a canopy.Work 7564.A broken bauble in a hollow holding green smoke in the year the mill closed, canopy work of white glass and stain, poster paint on black stock.Work 7263.An oppressive fin rising from a gravel plain toward a mass that never comes closer, after the third expedition returned, the base went deeper than the sounding, scale read only by a human speck.Work 7102.A monolithic sealed half-built setback with exposed steel, the years after the tower fires, annual report photography, daylight balance at cloud height.Work 7031.Storm light across a bare granite face of an abandonment plan rolled in a tube in an age when the gate still held, twenty second exposure on a stone tripod.Work 6948.A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper.Work 6768.The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string.Work 6705.A smoke-hazed turn of logs coming in on the mainline beside a high climber topping a spar tree, 1918, fire lookout log illustration.Work 6677.Documentary frame from a hull camera of a sealed-off dust storm covering a whole region on a work face with a foot restraint in the second station generation.Work 6671.