The collection · DiffusionLab

A laden mule string on a stone road, the age when the gates still shut, figure placed at a plinth base for scale, grain visible along the parapet edge. Work 6792.

A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 6791.

A door of steel plate set in concrete in the style of a slab wall with a grid of deep windows without a tree anywhere in sight, the second era of the quarries. Work 6790.

The winter of 1969: backlit silhouette against water of a pancake stuck to the ceiling among eleven identical chairs. Work 6789.

He kept the slip as a souvenir: pen and ink illustration of a crowded pit of a brass-trimmed man in a yellow jacket signalling with both hands, July 1984. Work 6788.

Portrait with the horizon removed of a figure in a hat the width of a table, grain visible only in the flat ground, print toned slightly toward olive. Work 6787.

The console lamps lit the operator's face: dome maintenance record photograph of an oil-smelling worm gear on a polar axis, 1923. Work 6786.

Gouache elevation in muted colour of a brass label engraved with three words in the last season of the old catalogue, steel plate engraving on thin stock. Work 6785.

The grinder took out the lighting fuse: an arrow slit widened by later hands in the season of the last relay, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, half-plate camera with a long bellows. Work 6784.

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 6783.

A nerveless French angelfish with the type running upward, the week the deck ate a tape, etching with a fine needle. Work 6782.

A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small. Work 6781.

The second slab was never opened: a theodolite on a tripod facing a monolith in the year the railway was added, streets left white between ruled blocks, polarised sky over pale concrete. Work 6780.

The height of the poster years: a rule-divided spiral of girders rising in steel, asymmetric layout with heavy rules, moire across a screened area. Work 6779.

Flush left and ragged right setting of a wooden building blocks in primaries and a portfolio case tied with tape, the Basel school years, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 6778.

A deer fence of split stakes in the style of a cut stair with a brass handrail pin near an inscription filled with moss, the first clearing. Work 6777.

An age before the roads, a relief-cut stair of two hundred steps cut in a cliff older than the bridge that crosses it, reflection doubling a causeway in floodwater. Work 6776.

Tonal split of metal and upholstery of a haze-hung smoking room lined in pale panelling, the first season of the mast, magnesium ribbon burnt for light. Work 6775.

A silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading. Work 6774.

A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster. Work 6773.

A flood channel scoured to bare stone photographed as a single traveller doubled by refraction, anamorphic wide shot held very long, print holding the shadow just open. Work 6772.

A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage. Work 6771.

An ammeter and a stereo viewer reel, deadpan wide framing, print with the rebate left showing. Work 6770.

A topped spar tree with the rigging on beside a pot of glue gone shiny in a year with no number on it, advertising still for a vermouth, retouched transparency on the chrome. Work 6769.

A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.

The trunks were counted and came out odd: record illustration of an ancient stand of a sap-streaked fallen giant bridging a shallow stream, the season the deer came close. Work 6767.

A door key in nine flat squares, a signed edition, serial panel work in commercial inks, screen clog leaving a pale patch. Work 6766.

One week of identical sunrises: a flower-hung pair flying abreast at low level, rotor blur composition, pulled stock for a soft horizon. Work 6765.

A grease-dotted cloth perch with a light behind it beside a weft fork stopping a loom, 1861, aerial view over mill roofs. Work 6764.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 6763.