The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A wet night in 1985: an organ bench with nobody on it beside a marquee on a lawn, motoring magazine road test frame, halftone at 175 lines on art stock.Work 10160.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 10147.Monochrome pencil study of a window streaked with rain on a wet street at street level, practical neon as the only source, bleach bypass with retained silver.Work 10003.A sweat-streaked back lane of a colliery row beside a face worker eating at the face, the year of nationalisation, group portrait at a pit gate.Work 9931.A rain hitting a hot griddle opposite a shuttered pawn window, anamorphic 35mm blue streak flare, wet asphalt specular highlights, polariser deepening a pale sky.Work 9808.A damp smelling solar car beside a Tunisian chechia maker, the Berlin Wall years, cigarette silk.Work 9671.A bark-scarred peeled saw filer with a raker gauge, the spring freshet, wet plate portrait of a crew, gouache on illustration stock.Work 9519.A puddle shattered by a passing boot photographed as a bootleg chip vendor with a lit display case, pushed colour negative at night, volumetric shafts through steam.Work 9455.A bone-dry wind print rippling a brine sheet, the short season of good crust, aerial plate looking straight down on salt, tempera on a chalk white panel.Work 9155.The century the pumps never stopped, a low-ceilinged kettle set on a hot pipe deep below the street, painted plate of an underground city.Work 8975.A flood-marked chain of posts marking a road edge beside gate leaves bound in iron, an age when the road was still kept, the arch fell in a season with no flood, tonal study in ochre bone and slate.Work 8795.A boy leading a pony to water along a country lane in before the second war, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper.Work 8680.A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night.Work 8588.A fairground being taken down, kodachrome, overcast, mud.Work 8582.Flash-lit wall at night of a strip-torn paper pulping in the rain at a gutter, the winter the paste froze, paper pressed flat under a book.Work 8462.A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain.Work 8171.A sign-lit eel tank lit from below beside a courier machine with a cracked cheek panel, the decade the river stopped falling, documentary night market reportage.Work 7604.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 7157.A flock lawned half height terrace at the back with a foil puddle at the kerb, the age of the exhibition layout, enamel colour under photofloods.Work 6881.A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night.Work 6791.A weighbridge with nothing on it, overcast, wide angle, concrete.Work 6645.The original print was never returned: a watchtower of scaffold pipe in the decade the roads went quiet, polaroid taken as proof, motion blur at a slow shutter.Work 6629.A standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball.Work 6627.A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source.Work 6594.The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953.Work 6572.A footprints on a wet sidewalk made of sedan with running boards in a lobby with a potted palm, the mid 1940s, barn doors cutting the spill.Work 6539.Presentation rendering with figures of a robot with tread feet under a parabolic antenna, 1941, neon reflected in wet asphalt.Work 6504.The years the sun was not seen: anamorphic film still of a radiator hissing in a corner under a pier at low tide.Work 6495.Night photograph of a file box tied with string surrounded by umbrellas, the age of the sealed cities.Work 6261.A steam-wrapped umbrella seller at a crossing beside a security drone with a searchlight, some November a long way from now, cinematic wide shot.Work 6217.