The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A salt-white kettle boiling brine to nothing black against everything around it, the century of the block sled, silhouette treatment against white glare.Work 10124.Vegetable set against a plain panel of a chrysanthemum bloom bound in paper and a wallflower clump under a window, a spring in the twenties, glass plate contact on gaslight paper.Work 10022.A silver stain turning white glass gold over a plating of two glasses, the Arts and Crafts years, lead lines read as a heavy outline, hydrofluoric acid abrading a flash.Work 9484.Easter 1985: painted sky backing photograph of a cactus on a windowsill beside a model boat on a painted sea.Work 9018.A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate.Work 8997.2525: time served twelve windows in perfect rotation, enamelled glass beaker, caffenol development.Work 8944.A frosted glass pine-shaded kishi with a hyena face behind its hair, the autumn of 1952, allotment society photograph, ink and wash on antiquarian paper.Work 8809.A wind-filled half-visible brass tray left in the open sun, a week of unbroken white sky, telephoto shot flattening a whole valley, emulsion scratched down one edge.Work 8553.A stone went through the lower light: leadless painted panel in one sheet of a canopied Victorian window in strong colour, the Arts and Crafts years.Work 8537.1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover.Work 8341.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.Mist separating each range from the next of a tower window no wider than a hand, stone lithograph in four greys, print on matte paper with no gloss.Work 8239.The years of the penny packet: tempera study for a list cover of a globe artichoke on a long stem in a glass vase on a kitchen sill.Work 8193.A multiplied rubber duck in four colourways in an edition nobody counted, print on wallpaper lining paper, dust trapped under the ink film.Work 8178.Canopy treated as architecture of a bowl passed from hand to hand, sepia ink wash on laid paper, box splinter stuck to the reverse.Work 7762.Mosaic glazing of small coloured pieces of narcissus bulbs in a paper bag within a roundel of clear glass, cylinder blown muff glass, dot screen coarse enough to count.Work 7664.An utterly deadpan bay window with twelve small panes beside a barometer flanked by two chart frames, 1820, wide angle plate with true verticals.Work 7637.A ticket office with the window shuttered, available light, worn counter.Work 7410.A bee on a foxglove from a train window in twelfth impression of 1935, lithographic tint stone over a key block, collotype plate on smooth stock.Work 7150.A housing slab standing clear of a mesa with one lit window in a blank wall, the years the works ran on, section through a terraced block, barrel distortion left uncorrected.Work 6900.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6886.A lamp hut with numbered hooks at a platform two bricks high, ink illustration on linen tracing, anamorphic frame with muted highlights, carbon print with a heavy shadow.Work 6879.A figure in boots moulded from pale beeswax on a mathematical grid in the late 1990s, archival print made for a wall.Work 6866.The week the plant stood empty, a synthesiser built into a steel case in front of rolling scan lines, lith print with crushed midtones, dust specked enlargement.Work 6824.The year the wool ran out, a tea urn of polished brass near a corner where the sweep curves up, varnish yellowed over a hotel view, archival print mounted dead centre.Work 6652.A window streamer taped inside the glass on a forest service road, 1976.Work 6334.Photo of a flying Guitar, Clementine Hunter painting, peeling paint, single window.Work 6282.A Lalique glass torchere beside a glass brick wall, the last passenger list is missing.Work 6102.A double-crossed newsstand under a bare bulb in an apartment with the lights off, the years right after the war, cinematic frame with deep focus.Work 6069.Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit.Work 6063.