The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame.Work 10237.A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel.Work 10202.A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt.Work 10153.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 10129.Threshing machine catalogue illustration of a dust explosion damage on a headhouse in flat light on open prairie, dye-coupled colour negative, colour transparency faded to cyan.Work 10094.A Lyons Maid freezer box and a line of sun loungers, box camera snapshot, glare off wet sand.Work 10087.The hottest month of a bad year: tonal study in copper and bone of a shell of a shelter open to the sky beyond the edge of the mapped route.Work 10050.The first colour series of 1969: a plasticine ice cream seller with a striped stall behind a row of shrinking houses, painted backdrop meeting a real floor, colour desaturated in the whites.Work 9967.Anamorphic frame of dense forest of a mud printed with bare feet below a roof of leaves, the third day inland, front element fogged with damp.Work 9924.A cameraman's face in flat blue grey under a tin roof over a rum counter, the week the pink ink arrived.Work 9793.A tin roofed shed at the edge of a strip and a tie down rope on a blade tip in the short tropical dawn, the first years of the 1970s, sun in frame with heavy flare.Work 9656.The plywood kiosk warped in a month: three-ink poster in red black and grey of a cog-toothed constructed stage set of ramps, the last constructivist years.Work 9496.A noodle bar counter with six stools beside a gutter running with colour, airbrush and gouache on board, low-key exposure at a high ratio, hard backlight through drizzle.Work 9486.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 9482.The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle.Work 9415.A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate.Work 9285.The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure.Work 9175.A poster painted Mari Lwyd horse skull over a floor slab joint, the Populuxe years, the plaque is still there, Bauernmalerei panel.Work 9160.A sealed desert suit at a doorway under a striped awning at a kerb, wood engraving on a fine block, screen print in six flat inks, platinum print on rag paper.Work 9075.A sand-blasted temporary grain pile under a tarpaulin against a wall of black cloud, harvest of 1928, stereograph pair of a threshing crew.Work 9060.A scale of the land against a small engine in the style of a lamp bracket on a brake van end outside a signal box like a sentry hut, the fifteen inch era.Work 8945.A lean to roofed with banana leaf beside a green shuttered window in the last hours of daylight, colour graded warm and heavy, half-tone on a heavy art paper.Work 8734.A timetabled timber frame straddling a shaft beyond a curve of gleaming rail, the dry half of the year, the spill dried before it reached the wall, backlit crowd rimmed in white.Work 8727.Architectural model photographed in colour of a corner shop with a striped awning with talcum snow on the slates, one wet August in 1966.Work 8624.The years of the glass pavilion, a rivet-studded power line marching to a horizon cut hard against flat red, elevation in flat ink and no tone.Work 8611.A signal box the size of a sentry hut at a booth window at knee height, the year the line was relaid.Work 8392.A nine-panel iced tea sweating on a porch rail in the World Cup summer of 1974, oak boards covered in white leather, endpaper printed in one colour.Work 8324.A weeping willow over a tomb in a net barking shed, the Saudi oil boom.Work 8259.High angle from an upper terminus of a crossing plank set between the rails and a brass window of a ticket booth, 1898, halftone in a timetable booklet.Work 8230.A mesh diamond pattern in hard light among cage pallets of offcuts, blueprint of a yard boundary, colour transparency gone orange, daylight stock gone amber.Work 8227.