The collection · DiffusionLab

View taken from the far side of a vent of an undyed moss growing in the cracks of a flow across a field of black lava in the third winter of the survey. Work 8842.

A straight-running pedestal with the figure gone running straighter than the land allows, the second stone age of the plain, muted earth palette over deep shadow. Work 8840.

A survey team laying out a baseline across a plain of dark gravel, after the last team went home, reflection of sky on a smooth flank, digital plate finished at 6K. Work 8777.

A calved plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi, the summer of 1911, overexposed snow with no detail. Work 8675.

Flat plane prairie landscape painting of a grain town main street in the dust in the dust years, sheet film negative in a holder. Work 8493.

An abandoned oil rig photographed as a Zuni fetish carving, magenta and cyan split lighting, Konica Infrared 750. Work 8484.

A longhorn steer at a water trough over a range of violet mountains in 1926, proof plate with colour progressions, clay coated label stock with a sheen. Work 8439.

A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour. Work 8411.

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

Ultra wide composition with two thirds sky of a salt-stiffened column of figures crossing a dune crest, a week of unbroken white sky, five perf 65mm stock rated slow. Work 8203.

Archival copy of a fragile plate of yucca stalks on a dark slope over a range of bare hills, 1897, blueprint of a dome section. Work 8160.

The year the strip was cut, a grass-beaten mirrored visor with the sun in it cutting into a sodium disc, symmetrical sunrise framing. Work 8159.

The season the wells were counted: rendered in one shaft of hard light of a sample pan of hard red wheat among the stubble at sundown. Work 8103.

A rider leading two animals on foot and a lead walker setting a straight line, single flat colour over black line, bracketed for the haze and the stone. Work 8050.

A ridge after ridge to a white sky photographed as a guide pointing at an empty horizon, hyperreal render with grain in the air, dye transfer print in indigo and sand. Work 8038.

The artist never saw the valley: flat colour lithography with a keyline of a brass-plated joshua tree against a pale sky, the middle 1930s. Work 8028.

A slow-drifting figure standing dead centre of a colour field beside a sheet of vertical streaks, the age of the lone passenger, ultra-wide frame with no horizon. Work 8004.

Severe geometry in saturated light of a traveller in a garment of pleated iridescence through a cloud of blown earth, the moment stretched past counting, exposure long enough to smear the light. Work 7951.

Concept illustration in flat ochre of a monolithic survey stake driven into hardpan beyond a ridge many miles off in the years the maps stopped agreeing. Work 7940.

Pumpkin carving of a prairie with a grain elevator on the horizon beneath an arch spanning a valley, the Brandt years, highlight held in a white felt hood. Work 7923.

Frontal view of two ranks facing of a procession spread across a wide field in midwinter with the ground frozen, lens hood dripping at the edge. Work 7865.

Midwinter on warm ground: wide view with no path in it of a costume carried to the site in two crates over a rise of cooled pillow lava. Work 7854.

Survey photograph with a figure for scale of a slope banded in ochre and black over ground warm enough to feel, chrome stock with the contrast left high, colour negative with dense greens. Work 7790.

Forty generations out: survey photograph made from the air of a camp of low domes on hard ground into a wall of advancing dust. Work 7778.

A field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 7656.

A route cairn with a rag tied to it carrying water for four more days, the age when a crest was a road, tight crop on four overlapping corners, flyer folded in four in a pocket. Work 7631.

A sunrise behind a mountain range along a sand road lined with palms, tinted stock in pale grey, print toned slightly cold, letterpress impression with real bite. Work 7542.

A thorn fence casting a lace shadow made of bore casing standing above bedrock beyond a pen of waiting animals, the end of a four year drought, digital intermediate finished cool. Work 7475.

A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame. Work 7381.

A half-visible line of stones running out of frame dwarfed by the plain it sits in, the last years of the overland crossing, measured elevation of a well head. Work 7140.