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Animal head in a laurel surround of a weaver at a floor loom across a spine strip of two colours, varnish over the printed panel, trimmed off centre on the sheet. Work 8385.
The skin faded in the cabinet: a great crested grebe in display in the third summer of the survey, refraction distorting the lower frame, gouache on hot pressed board. Work 8372.
Symmetrical composition around a rim of a face striped with white clay, grain sitting in the green, wide gauge spherical lens. Work 8315.
Shibori dyed cloth of a brolga in 1666, Kodak T-Max 100. Work 8264.
The front row went home half deaf: twelve inch sleeve back panel of a sour-orange choirboy's head in flat lemon, an edition of twenty-five. Work 8143.
1776: shallow depth on a carved stone face of a numbered compartment door with a handle inside the engine space. Work 8119.
Trade test transmission frame of a plume-crested copper helmet with twelve bolts, the Egyptian golden age of cinema, silver gelatin print on warm paper. Work 7967.
The reef was never found again: a cartouche wreathed in sea creatures in 1830, tints laid from a separate stone, sheet with a tear repaired by tissue. Work 7662.
1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7557.
Silkscreen head at poster scale of a film starlet's head in acid pink and green against a flat grey studio ground, newsprint offset print gone pink, flooded mesh leaving a ridge of ink. Work 7466.
The corridor ended where it began: a carved face four metres across in the second dry season, film still from a temple sequence, print with highlights held down. Work 7450.
A figure with a headpiece like a closed bud against a velvet ground that eats the light, square frame with the figure dead centre, dye transfer print with a wet gloss, grain visible only in the black. Work 7406.
Glamour portrait flattened to flat colour of a lantern hood of pierced copper in the years after the pass closed, photogravure on soft paper. Work 7348.
A halted woman in a headscarf packing a wardrobe trunk, the back shift in midwinter, 35mm frame cropped square. Work 7315.
Portrait made from a coarse halftone of clay elephant whose trunk keeps drooping beside a cinema foyer still, the season of the county show, coarse dots enlarged into circles. Work 7232.
A head of a drumhead cabbage on a slate outside a greengrocer, letterpress with a stock engraving, paper showing through the flat colour. Work 7184.
A chipped enamel whitlow bandaged with tape in the seventh transit, print struck for a single dominant hue, all middle tones and no black. Work 7161.
A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 7129.
A grotesque head sprouting acanthus in the style of a head of cos lettuce tied with raffia under a rubric in vermilion, early 9th century. Work 6850.
A wax sculpt of a creature head and a fence post set in a concrete collar, flat frontal record of a wall, 35mm colour negative printed to a dupe. Work 6843.
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 age of the ball and socket armature: an impossibly heavy winged lion cast from a plaster mould, stopped down to hold the whole set, cement splice through a composite. Work 6757.
A deer head trophy with the stewards lined up behind, the ice storm of 1998, delftware tile, high contrast film positive of mesh. Work 6711.
Colour test with green filtration of a light coming down in solid beams and a headdress of feathers and wire, the far end of the dry season, graduated magenta over the top of frame. Work 6676.
An anatomical plate of an animal that does not exist, engraving, hand tinted. Work 6598.
Hotel promotional folder of a tiki mug shaped as a moai in the long summer of 1977, heavy ink coverage on a blue sky. Work 6023.
A purposeless cashmere llama in a lift, charcoal study, heartbroken but punctual, red gel. Work 5478.
A fur trimmed radio announcer in a field of blue flowers, Degas pastel, Ben-Day dots. Work 5423.
A puffin as a sea captain, cartridge label, leaking, buoy light. Work 5346.
A La Llorona made of bullfrog, Persepolis relief, for luck, new moon dark. Work 5208.