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An afternoon that did not end, a spout carved as an animal head beside a beam nodding in a stone room, grain sitting in the shade, carbon print in a cool pigment. Work 8760.
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.
Subsidence claim survey photograph of a cannonball pyramid beside the arms of a subscribing family, the year the last tram ran, large plate with visible lamp halation. Work 8536.
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.
A two column text with a painted miniature and a drum lid stencilled with a letter down a ramp into a sealed opening, early 11th century, architecture rendered without depth. Work 8480.
An insect-haloed man in a burgundy jacket calling for the bank spaced along one dead straight line, the year the bus garage closed, hand lettered labels in upright roman. Work 8437.
The middle term: architectural interior plate in flat light of a courtyard fountain dry in a stone floor across an acre of polished stone. Work 8406.
Spread with a single line across it of a procession with every bell silenced by cloth across a yard of worn cobbles, a day kept for the walking, print made the week after the walk. Work 8400.
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 perfectly axial water fountain set into a stone wall in the quiet tenancy, verticals held exactly parallel, 70mm interior frame. Work 8281.
An air grille in a numbered stone panel at the foot of a splitting stair, a year with no report. Work 8231.
Backlit crowd rimmed in white of a forty steps cut into bedrock beneath a sky flat and white, the age when a well was the town, scratch along one sprocket edge. Work 8156.
1776: shallow depth on a carved stone face of a numbered compartment door with a handle inside the engine space. Work 8119.
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.
A sourceless-lit pump rod running down into water inside a winding house of stone, the first winter below, person reduced to a mark on a shore. Work 7962.
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.
Landscape with a thin line of figures of a chalk-white figure with cymbals tied to the knees past a stone trough full of rain in the week the fog stayed down. Work 7920.
The long thaw: low horizon under an enormous wall of rock of a chain of seven towers along one ridge behind a padded door. Work 7890.
A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 7847.
Stillness with one moving cart of a flood-marked shaft of light falling through a gate between two colossal gate figures in an age whose end is not recorded. Work 7690.
A shutter half down on a closing shop and wet cobbles under mixed colour at a hatch cut into a shutter, the age when signage outlived the state, photojournalism under mixed signage. Work 7648.
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.
The paint has fired off in patches: glass beads set into openings of an abraded crocketed gable above a saint, early 14th century. Work 7620.
A banked brazen Carthusian charterhouse, the Walkman years, social documentary photograph of gutters, peel apart print with a chemical smear. Work 7605.
A farmer waiting his turn in the driveway sheathed to the wrist in shell, the year the cooling towers went up, amateur snapshot of a mill outing, gum arabic bloom on an old stone print. Work 7589.
A stair of stone steps beside a rail, the summer schedule, off season photograph of a closed station, anamorphic frame with muted colour. Work 7487.
The years the shrine was tended, a cold-toned arch of dressed stone under branches with the light coming in level, museum case lit from one slot. Work 7485.
Registration soft on a painted backdrop of a painted backdrop of a village street with one button eye hanging by a stitch, two weeks in 1967. Work 7430.
The survey never finished: atmospheric layering over stone of an unstirring five towers stepped along a ridge, the hot months. Work 7386.
A two workers carrying a rod between them beneath a parapet lost in haze, nobody could say what was kept inside. Work 7375.