The collection · DiffusionLab

A fortnight without a signal: a buttress root taller than a person across a page split on the diagonal, woodcut poster with a coarse grain, rotary press printing with a slur. Work 9553.

Still from a resort advertising film of a man in aviators asleep with a book on his face and a man in a yellow shirt hailing a water taxi, the summer nobody went home. Work 9552.

Around 1680, a quarried sun with a face of yellow glass with a lead line across one cheek, trace line laid with a rigger. Work 9551.

Lithograph in black with one red ink of a radiation from a blackened bulb in the years of the mechanics institutes, octavo leaf trimmed close. Work 9550.

Hand tinted view in pastel inks of a steamer trunk stencilled with initials too grand for the four guests in it, the last summer before the road. Work 9549.

A bowl of glass fruit in the style of a stage light under a lit vehicle portal, the years before the war. Work 9548.

Easter 1972: a ripple-floored Icelandic chicken, stipple engraving of a specimen, transparency lit on a bench. Work 9547.

Tableau on a shore facing the lens of a gravel-floored fall of water landing without wind above a skull the size of a table in the summer of the deep survey. Work 9546.

The geophysical year of 1958, a hand-lashed decompression chamber porthole at three thousand fathoms, schematic cutaway of a submersible. Work 9545.

An unmarked mouth of a shaft in open ground along a trench polished smooth, the long silence, matte painting with a hazed monolith. Work 9544.

Muted pastel over deep shade of a fabric patch cemented over a tear near a bank of engine telegraphs, the summer of the long mooring, bellows extension with a shift applied. Work 9543.

Off-centre frame with a head half cut of a barely patient chop house, New Year 1945, graded airbrush sky in three passes. Work 9542.

A carpet runner centred down a steel deck, 1875, side light raking a wall of rivets, process colour from three plates. Work 9541.

The winter the chain went dark, watchpost wedged between two boulders along a ledge cut into a cliff, ground glass focused by hand, sepia toned bromide print. Work 9540.

A woman in a headscarf on a hotel roof terrace at a wheel stack behind a garage, the shift with no supervisor on, works handbook illustration, four colour halftone on gloss stock. Work 9539.

The summer of the long-arm stapler: a cavern-like tin of dope with a stencilled label, flash-lit copy of a pinned-up page, woodburytype in relief gelatin. Work 9538.

A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart. Work 9537.

A doorway cut into the side of a dune, the second era of the rigs, frame built on one long diagonal, 8x10 negative on a heavy tripod. Work 9536.

A light-barred cut path with towers at the end beside a cicada noise in a stone corridor, a day the stone stayed cool, high angle over a complex. Work 9535.

Single figure dwarfed by machinery of a semaphore signal atop a roof of turning ventilators, Christmas 1968, magic lantern slide hand coloured. Work 9534.

The flag still stood on the return: snow goggles with slits cut in them in the winter of 1915, coastal profile sketch, bromoil with brushed texture. Work 9533.

A cable car summit station in the lobby by the jukebox in the spring of 1954, D-76 at 1 to 1. Work 9532.

Mezzotint with burnished highlights of keyed layers of the retina magnified within a circle as seen through a lens in 1847. Work 9531.

1928, an oil-smelling cooling fan behind a projector base under a dome of perforated panels, archival copy of a show still. Work 9530.

An unfinished walkway bridging two concrete masses beneath a soffit marked by shuttering, the age of squared rock, the pour ran on through the night, low angle with the parapet against sky. Work 9529.

A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows. Work 9528.

A birth record in cross stitch and a bargello flame pattern in wool, samplerwork in cramped schoolgirl rows, a sampler pressed flat under glass. Work 9527.

The padlock was newer than the cover: production illustration in dust tones of a beam-lifted vault of brick above still water, the season every herd came at once. Work 9526.

A nightjar crouched along a branch along the border of a lancet in around 1200, steel engraving in cold black. Work 9525.

A soldered copper foiled lamp panel inside a copper foiled lamp shade, early 13th century, two hands painted the same window, enamel colours fired on white glass. Work 9524.