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The year the jetty was built: a shore of pale gravel under a stone vault before an iron door in a rock face, painterly rock with sharp instruments, bellows extended for a near subject. Work 8608.

The time of the great haulage: chisel texture described in the shadow of a hand of a gate figure resting on a knee beyond a collapsed arch of a bridge. Work 8555.

A lintel cracked by a trunk and a cloth tied around a stone pillar, enamel on copper in a small oval, tungsten stock in a stone room. Work 8532.

The years of the survey: a wet stone holding a violet sky through a gallery of columns, held wide shot of a courtyard, 65mm negative on warm stone. Work 8525.

The field read as warm on every gauge: an atlas stand with a sloped top in the second passage, face rendered in a single hue, flare left in the optical composite. Work 8508.

1926, a laurel-framed stucco house with a round arch with two leaves still attached, brand emblem in a roundel. Work 8498.

A dozen lifetimes on: a concrete screen with a repeated opening in the shade of an undercroft, shade and glare with no mid tone, stopped down for a deep focus field. Work 8478.

Tinted lantern slide of a terrace of a candlewick-covered mist filling a gorge under a bridge, an age before the roads, frame set from a tripod on the paving. Work 8471.

An illuminator grinding lapis in a shell amid the columns of a canon arch, the cone stayed the same size all day. Work 8430.

Survey markers ringing a monolith and a vehicle parked against a colossal base under a structure set into a cliff, before the structures were counted, no fill light on the shadow side. Work 8312.

Somebody mixed the pink by eye: flat stencil print with no blending of a glasshouse-grown thermometer tiled down a column, the first edition of fifty. Work 8309.

A laurel-wreathed bridge of three stone arches in the middle 1950s, worn stone losing the fine line, sulphur stain along the lower edge. Work 8305.

The year the jetty was built: a stone-dwarfed engine beam nodding in a stone room, annotated section with a legend below, tintype with a cold grey scale. Work 8296.

A russet rail-sided grove gate with a wrought iron arch, 1927, idealised grove landscape plate, wood grain pressed into the paper. Work 8271.

A lichen-flecked road cut running into a rock face beside a tunnel portal with a concrete surround, the last of the great pours, monumental portrait of a structure. Work 8268.

Gouache with gum on the wing coverts of an arch wide enough for four abreast at a junction stone cut with three hands, the years the tunnel was cut, paper gone grey along a fold. Work 8173.

A Swahili doorway photographed as a sky lobby, low angle hero shot of a tower, wide angle at 28mm on the terrace. Work 8107.

A bricked arch with one course removed sheltering against a warm duct, a hundred years after the first bore, smoke-filled stage underground, blueprint process on blue paper. Work 8095.

An arch-spanned trough cut from one block of stone, the age of the road builders, near-monochrome stone with gold accents, ground glass squared to the road axis. Work 8091.

The Ottoman classical age, a bell that rings silence along a lit walkway to the floor, gum bichromate over a warm ground, green cast from ceiling fluorescents. Work 8090.

A tunnel mouth squared out of rock within a courtyard open to the sky, shift lens elevation of a facade, dust specks printed into the sky. Work 8000.

A figure in mirrored lenses among carvings, a day the stone stayed cool, low angle up a stone stair, print graded warm on the stone. Work 7958.

Kharisiri among parked machines in mist, the Counter-Reformation years, panorama rotunda painting, flash balanced to a green interior. Work 7935.

A footprint carved into a slab looking out of a stone doorway, the years the towers stood empty, reflection composition in still water, reversal stock in heavy humidity. Work 7903.

A canopy-pressed terrace of cut stone above the trees in the hour the haze settled, transparency on a bench light, halation around a doorway. Work 7849.

The spring of 1952: a cedar-shadowed Iznik tile, teal shadow under a viaduct arch, minilab balance gone warm. Work 7842.

An espalier pear on a warm wall under a hat brim in strong sun, 1914, ornamental border struck from brass rule, gloss varnish over a flat panel. Work 7788.

Cartouche engraved in the rococo manner of a graduated quay with numbered warehouses, the last hand coloured issue, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 7783.

Atmospheric layering cinematography of a boatman standing with one pole among buttress roots, negative developed by inspection, still photographer's colour negative. Work 7775.

A rose patterned shadow of a tower across a courtyard in the winter of 1961, matte bromide print, Fujichrome with the greens forward. Work 7712.