The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The last engine in steam: a gauge glass wiped with a thumb below a numbered warning post, volumetric dust haze study, hand tinted print in thin washes.Work 10186.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 10129.Tour programme spread of a patch panel with taped numbers among steel offcuts on a deck, whole plate negative on glass, photostat of a detail illustration.Work 9958.An exhaust valve rimmed with copper through a haze of raised silt, contact print on salted stock, sepia wash on laid paper, chromolithograph in seven colours.Work 9845.A surface pitted by years of blown grit in the style of a truck in faded mint with brass lamps beyond a haze horizon of flat ground, four months of evenings in 1969.Work 9736.Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage.Work 9703.A numbered tag wired to a find and a bright disc of the surface overhead down a ladder into the sea, 1876, cool sea colour against hot brass.Work 9672.The engine was named after a wife: axial composition down a trench of a four-storey mixing bin heaped with cotton, the second decade of the site.Work 9617.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.A proof marked up with a caret in the wash of a passing headlamp, the sign had spelled another name once.Work 9186.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.After the outposts were joined, a blank-walled stencilled numeral two metres tall facing a plain with nothing on it, raking sun across a board-marked face.Work 8603.Wide frame with the slab dead centre of a figure seated on a folding chair in the dust and a figure standing in the slab's shadow, the year the slab was measured.Work 8479.Red signal light as an accent of a rust-scaled kettle set down beside a rim, the decade the maps went out of date, dye transfer print in stone and rust.Work 8092.1906: a lamp-yellowed barrels ranged along a quay, harbour plan in ink and wash, negative with rust marks from a tin.Work 7768.A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame.Work 7381.A grime-slick vent throwing steam across the crowd corrected to the latest survey, the age when signage outlived the state, hyper-detailed technical illustration.Work 7376.A sun-blasted figure on a ladder against a hull after the wind has erased every track, ten thousand years on, ultra wide with the horizon set low.Work 7006.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 6902.A chain-wrapped storage tank streaked with rust, the third year without rain, Ektachrome transparency, blue horizontal streak flare.Work 6288.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 6055.Square format snapshot of a bottle of Coppertone with the paint coming off, 1974.Work 5981.High-contrast colour photograph of a salt-crusted pursuit sedan with an exposed blower beside a capped dry bore in the end of the age of engines.Work 5705.Vintage rusty droid head movie poster, the mountain is on holiday, waiting room lighting.Work 5410.Vintage rusty droid head. The eyes look like 1930s headlights and it has a circular microphone screen for a mouth, Utrillo street scene, sun halo.Work 4617.Vintage rusty droid head movie poster, beautiful symmetrical face, cinematic composition.Work 4101.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 3137.An auctioneer mid bid made of Toby jug, armoured, found footage, welding arc.Work 3001.A cable-laying ship and a queue of cars at a lighthouse in a space junkyard, kente cloth.Work 2708.A red blood cell, enamel painting on copper, unexploded, television shop window.Work 2659.