The collection · DiffusionLab

Bestiary plate with a written gloss of a lead-ruled fox preaching to a congregation of geese, around 1320, sewn quires on alum tawed thongs. Work 6822.

Tilted frame with a raked horizon of a goods wagon halted at a signal and a tunnel market in a widened chamber, late in the era of the sealed levels, fluorescent ink over a process print. Work 6821.

A personally plated woman in gold heels on a polished forecourt under a sodium street lamp, January 1986, overhead frame from a parking deck. Work 6820.

A furniture catalogue sofa with a cyan edge in the style of a lighter fuel tin with a doubled flame beside a slipped register mark, the spring sale season. Work 6819.

A chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat in the style of a chart table flanked by two lamps against a panelled wall of dusty pink, the summer of the great triangulation. Work 6818.

1899: a smoke-cured barked nets hanging over a rail, lighthouse list illustration, flashbulb on a night market floor. Work 6817.

A winch drum paying out armoured cable and a sediment trap cone on a mooring, echo sounder trace facsimile, green tinge of natural light at depth. Work 6816.

The end of a long afternoon, a garland laid across a stone lap in an empty inner courtyard, wet gate dupe of a survey reel, archival positive with green shadow. Work 6815.

A suit hung on a wooden frame, the third watch of the old order, overcast light with one break of sun, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 6814.

A cloak spread flat by a crosswind at the point where the ridges cross in the months the salt moved south, collodion positive on glass. Work 6813.

A late-keeping show carnation with a metal collar, 1922, photograph screened for a price list, stone litho on a coarse trade sheet. Work 6812.

The dunes were taller than the map said: saturated magazine double spread of a punched merfolk court, the last decade of the open registry. Work 6811.

A rail-tracked survey party standing in a straight line in 1862, no visible source and a full exposure, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand. Work 6810.

A service tower rising above the roofs never finished above the sixth floor, the century of the cut settlements, documentary architectural survey plate, metallic gold ink in the title. Work 6809.

The third summer of the survey: a wind-shaped far ridge reduced to a grey suggestion, symmetrical composition on a flat horizon, mechanical tint laid over a flat. Work 6808.

A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows. Work 6807.

The long boom before the first audit, a drekavac down a siding marked with a number, daylight stock left uncorrected, fibre print with a deep black. Work 6806.

Poster with a very low horizon of a pyramid flattened against a gold sky through a tunnel mouth in rock, a tear repaired from behind, paper showing through the blue. Work 6805.

A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 6804.

A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph. Work 6803.

Registration off by half a frame of an exposure meter held against a clay face by a stream of blue cellophane, the first colour series of 1969, splice bump every few feet. Work 6802.

The year the line was relaid, an ochre-canvassed gate of white bars across a path built to a fifteen inch gauge, haze lit interior exposure. Work 6801.

A battery room of tall glass cells behind a wind screen in the late 1890s, single lamp exposure of an interior. Work 6800.

Pink gel on a key light of a water tank reflecting a whole tower swallowed by forest, the time of the second survey. Work 6799.

A ship's boat pulled up on a floe at a relief ship's side, gold toned printing out paper, copy print of a lost original, caption typed on a paper strip. Work 6798.

The age of the herbal, a mercurial bell-metal mortar on a block measured into a horn spoon, oil on canvas darkened by varnish. Work 6797.

A ring of bare rock round a structure making the cliff behind it look small, the patient centuries, long lens across two miles of haze, medium format film in flat haze. Work 6796.

A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan. Work 6795.

A bathing hut with striped panels on a sandy shore at low tide, I coloured it in with a pencil. Work 6794.

Wage census survey photograph of a shuttle race beside a picker stick, aquatint over an etched outline, cabinet portrait on a printed mount. Work 6793.