The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A referenced leyden jar with inner and outer foil between two facing pages of text, 1883, the plate was numbered out of order, two colour printing with red for the rays.Work 10249.A brass cap unscrewed and set beside a pipe photographed as a tape shell with a hand-written label, atmospheric wide shot with a small figure, printed on the reverse of a till receipt.Work 9858.A red-leaded wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the herring season, stencil paint on a wooden box end.Work 9797.Lithographed fish plate of a bridge wing in cold spray measured against a brass ruler, 1951.Work 9767.A bilingual pipe resting on a tobacco tin beside a match count in figures, the late 1950s, nobody kept the boxes only the labels, Czech matchbox label art.Work 9740.The summer of the long-arm stapler: a cavern-like tin of dope with a stencilled label, flash-lit copy of a pinned-up page, woodburytype in relief gelatin.Work 9538.A sandwich in a lunchbox with bite marks and a Haitian tin art, glass shot reference photograph, transparency on a light box in the dark.Work 9476.A fish in chili oil, the year the archive forgot, herbarium sheet photograph, wash marks from a shallow tray.Work 9343.A soda lime canister in a cradle in a survey leg at night, hand tinting over a monochrome print, echo trace inked on wet paper, Tri-X at the limit of the flash.Work 9245.A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock.Work 9056.A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil.Work 8736.An antirrhinum spike in a hot colour in the dark of a shuttered shop, the years of the poison book, vegetable set against a plain panel, dot screen coarse enough to count.Work 8303.1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge.Work 8142.Czech matchbox label art of a cigar band on a rolled leaf in the post-war export years, strike grit shedding at an edge.Work 8085.The years of the poison book: tin glaze crazed across the letters of a bundle of valerian root tied with twine on a bare board floor.Work 8082.Ruling pen border with corner flowers of a grocer weighing sugar on brass scales and a bird nest with four speckled eggs, a 1936 reprint, tipped in colour plate with a tissue.Work 8035.Socialist realist mill scene of a club moss and a Cold War fallout shelter tin, Christmas 1980, optical composite over a matte.Work 7944.A cheaply repeated soup tin repeated in six clashing colourways beside a rocket tiled in green and pink, the second pull, repeat print with every cell recoloured.Work 7660.An acrid flake of white arsenic in a phial hung from a beam to dry, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, transfer printed lettering on tin glaze.Work 7074.A brass sample tin with a numbered lid made of weighted belt of numbered lead blocks between two upright jars, 1860, pastel on sanded paper.Work 6999.Isometric view of an apparatus of a cloche over a row of seedlings in 1797, pencilled caption under a small print.Work 6867.Square format snapshot of a bottle of Coppertone with the paint coming off, 1974.Work 5981.Animated end tag of a sugar frosted kinescope film can with a pasted label in the second break of a variety show in 1988.Work 5804.A dog licence made of sauerkraut jar, spherical, risograph print, limited palette.Work 5417.1980s toy commercial of a tobacco pouch inside a sardine tin, natural light.Work 5038.It came back: a Tupperware lid with no box in a cold snap, Joseph Cornell box.Work 4997.Csontvary canvas of a tin of shortbread in a fever dream, council estate grey.Work 4414.A film with no dialogue made of concert ticket stub, prickly, egg box, green monochrome.Work 4408.Matchbook cover of a chough on a revolving stage, enamel sign chips.Work 4323.A candy-coloured tankard in the late afternoon, hagiographic panel, blue screen glow, wrong white balance.Work 3949.