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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.

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

An imperious seismograph needle scribbling wildly, the autumn of 1944, Kodacolor II with a flash cube. Work 6752.

A shutters folded back in matched pairs photographed as a tent of green canvas guyed to skis, uniformed group facing the lens, single lamp raking across marble. Work 6743.

A poisonous bottle marked POISON in relief glass in the window of a chemist's shop, 1664, a customer asked for it by name, gouache on a dark prepared ground. Work 6715.

Four-colour newsprint comic panel of a forkful of spaghetti in red dots with a pink hotel sign overhead, the year the marina filled up. Work 6708.

A flowering branch of a magnolia beside a collector's pencilled note in the 1840s, silver in the dark tones going brown. Work 6704.

A hundred staples and no flyer left made of mailbox side covered in pasted paper near a boiler and a water heater, the night before a show, eight flyers cut from one sheet. Work 6697.

A brass lamp at each end of a table, sectional figure of a theodolite, a messenger waited all morning for it, chromolitho in ochre and pale mint. Work 6695.

Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied. Work 6675.

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 petrol pump in four colourways and a subtropical glasshouse, over the shoulder of an examiner, letterpress plate with a caption block. Work 6641.

A rocks glass with a twist of lemon peel laughing at something off camera, the filter tip years, full bleed magazine page, two point perspective from the corner. Work 6628.

Engraved glass goblet of a badly framed single line token instrument at a marina slip in the autumn of 1964. Work 6595.

A distant densitometer on a bench, the late 1980s, grainy newspaper enlargement, hazy midday light. Work 6588.

An uncorroborated index slip with a sighting number beside an overhead projector transparency, the summer of 1967, cropped and blown up frame. Work 6575.

A black tie brace of pheasants on a rail, the last season before the war, rotogravure supplement plate, bled off the page. Work 6554.

The filter tip years: an expensive looking martini with two olives on a pick, progressive proof sheet, hand spotted dust on a print. Work 6552.

A high contrast toy maker in the Art Deco years, mechanical vignetting, Polaroid SX-70. Work 6533.

Saturated colour brochure photograph of a pavement cafe under an awning with fruit speared on a stick, the Concorde years. Work 6511.

An air traffic control tower at an airport, the Civil Rights years. Work 6507.

A glass of whisky on a case file on flat farmland, a night in the coming century. Work 6489.

A hydrofoil crossing a bay photographed as an outrigger canoe pulled up on sand, airline poster in gouache, graduated filter over the sky. Work 6465.

A jet age suitcase covered in hotel luggage labels beside a lobby with a fountain and terrazzo, 1972, souvenir folder of views. Work 6452.

A mechanical bank on a desert proving ground in the Great Society years, Ektachrome 200. Work 6451.

A loudspeaker mounted high on a wall in a Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, stencilled wall text, flat even gallery lighting. Work 6446.

Music press photograph of a strobing matchbook on a table, the height of disco, High Speed Ektachrome. Work 6418.

Paperback book cover plate of an annotated transistor radio in a duty free case in a motel conference room in the year the reef was still clear. Work 6412.