The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A hydraulic pit prop in the style of a miniature Leaning Tower of Pisa below a telegraph on a shelf, the chrome bumper years.Work 10255.A matchstick braced poster painted clay duck squashed slightly flat on one side, the summer holidays of 1968, tabletop puppet film in colour, print struck for a school hire library.Work 10199.A lasagne with too many layers made of umibozu within a decorated initial letter, the Ottoman classical age, glow of a rheostat lamp.Work 9936.Excursion handbill in letterpress of a fish van iced down for the night, rubber-stamped date on the back, time exposure with lamps trailing.Work 9887.A rod engine on a temporary logging grade photographed as a springboard notch in a standing stump, landscape painting of standing timber, exposure lost in the shadows.Work 9885.Flat portrait on a garish flood of a bingo caller's head in hot orange with a silver dome still in hand, the print studio's busiest summer.Work 9648.1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed.Work 9488.Illustrated London News wood engraving of a gastric-brooding frog in the turn of the 1920s, lithograph printed from both stones in register.Work 9383.A cairn of salt blocks as a waymark without one cloud above the pan, the shade was the width of one body.Work 9277.The winter of 1968: VHS box art of pincers beside a wall of armco.Work 8782.A cairn of stacked slabs marking a fork along a road switchbacking into mist, sublime vista rendered without figures, single sheet exposed and developed on site.Work 8316.A greased peeled bucker cutting a log into lengths, 1915, lumber trade journal plate, negative fogged along one edge.Work 8075.A resolute wind slab cut into blocks at seventy degrees north, 1903, museum exhibition enlargement.Work 7955.A route cairn with a rag tied to it carrying water for four more days, the age when a crest was a road, tight crop on four overlapping corners, flyer folded in four in a pocket.Work 7631.A straw-coloured outpost with half its windows blocked, after the rock ran out, Japanese matchbox label art, flat opaque ink with a matte surface.Work 7598.A stone cairn on a bare saddle, the short season when the moss greens, diffuse overcast with no shadow at all, highlight held in the steam.Work 7276.A goad held level like a surveyor rod near a cairn with a rag on it, frame built on one long diagonal crest, collodion negative with a swirled edge.Work 7221.A dropout-scarred tape reused with the last band painted out beside a tape with a bar of type across the label, the summer of the double deck, document style frame of fifty tapes.Work 7142.A weed-grown silt-hazed pump handles worked in opposite time, the summer of the stone survey, scale of a figure against cut stone, aquatint with a dark ground.Work 7108.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6885.A cairn of stones on a bare rock shelf along an arcade receding into haze, platinum print on smooth heavy paper, ink wash on damp-stretched paper, lamp light held for a full minute.Work 6750.A type case with sorted sorts beside one object in a case in the Ulm years, Bauhaus typographic poster, sewn signatures in a plain case.Work 6664.Asbestos survey photograph of a stirrup and a mail sack of letters to a researcher, the age of the fax machine, Dynachrome 25.Work 6271.Video monitor image of a spiral of rock in a shallow lake, Polaroid taken as a record, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6162.An enlarged tape recorder on a kitchen table, 1995, stereo pair comparison plate, blown up past the grain.Work 6153.Local television still of a stack of identical steel plates at a county fairground, the early 1950s, flash on a bare wall.Work 5943.Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now.Work 5868.A sponsor approved checkout girl passing a box over beside a stack of pancakes taking syrup, the early 1960s, U-matic dub of a commercial.Work 5776.1950, a soot-blackened funnel cake under sugar with the lights coming on, linen finish postcard.Work 5640.A Jenga tower with a sad face at a parish council meeting, do not use flash, Lucian Freud portrait, late morning haze.Work 5538.