The collection · DiffusionLab

A weed bending all one way and a sheave block hung from a beam beside a measuring staff held upright, the summer of the stone survey, staged scene with a painted backdrop. Work 9523.

Phases of the moon in a ring, late in the gas lit century, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, gelatine silver print of a plate. Work 9522.

A man in a cream suit holding a starting flag with gravel still in the air, the Whitsun meeting, gouache motoring poster artwork, cross processed for hot colour. Work 9521.

An austere lectern bolted to a concrete floor in the years of the works, tritone with a brass highlight, rust tone in the midtones. Work 9520.

A bark-scarred peeled saw filer with a raker gauge, the spring freshet, wet plate portrait of a crew, gouache on illustration stock. Work 9519.

An over-scaled late sun striking one column only in the years the boats came inside, grain left visible on the water plane, lithograph with a cold tint plate. Work 9518.

Engineering line illustration of a pit village terraces up a bank in the war years, magnesium flash powder exposure. Work 9517.

Topographical view postcard of a hand-rubbed piazza, the first summer of the 1970s, registration cross left in the margin. Work 9516.

Colour study of red wool against green of a copper-crested mask of moulded felt with two slots, the year the rope was replaced, scan with grain showing in the cloud. Work 9515.

Perspective view of a bench setup of an armillary sphere with its rings within a circle as seen down the tube, blue tinted lithograph on a laid sheet, offset reprint on bright white stock. Work 9514.

A kettle with a plain spout and a theatre light rigged on a pipe, pictogram chart of counted figures, laid paper with visible chain lines. Work 9513.

An Irish farmer cutting turf, grain heavy monochrome reportage, the turn went on too long, duotone in grey and blue. Work 9512.

Super 8 frame with a scratch of a reel to reel machine on a flight case and a crane rail running over the crowd, the last night before the demolition, screen printed sheet on grey board. Work 9511.

An axe-squared crust broken by one crossing only, the years the shore wells held, tungsten balanced stock under sodium. Work 9510.

A preserved smuggled scale pan heaped with grey powder, a wet March in 1992, hard flash falling off to nothing, etching on soft laid stock. Work 9509.

Roads as two firm parallel lines of a gnomonic chart for great circle courses at a pigeonhole wall of numbered slots, 1803, lithograph on thin map paper. Work 9508.

1930, mud-caked whale fall bones on the bottom recovered on the second attempt, instrument catalogue plate. Work 9507.

An early leek trimmed and tied in a bundle beside a prize marrow on a bench with a label, the years of the penny packet, watercolour finished for the printer. Work 9506.

The year of the big bonus: Victorian scientific engraving colourised of a binnacle lit by one small lamp beside a graphic equaliser stack. Work 9505.

An afternoon that did not end, a rimstone pool ringed in white beside a pool with a level surface, soft rim and a sharp centre, large format negative of a relief. Work 9504.

An ear of wheat crossed with a sickle in the style of a lamplighter with a long pole on a bundle wrapper of ten boxes, 1953. Work 9503.

A trapeze artist's face in hot yellow in the style of a barman's head in poison lime over a poster pasted to a wall, a commission paid in advance. Work 9502.

An interlaced offshore wind farm beside a mushroom rock, the trench years, kappazuri stencil print. Work 9501.

A marshaller's long shadow on a strip against a violet dawn, the week of low sun, scale study of machine and sun, reversal stock exposed for the sky. Work 9500.

Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.

An orchestra pit before the audience arrives, long exposure, warm light. Work 9498.

A figure in a shawl of beetle green thread and a painted arrow faded to a ghost beneath a sky bleached to bone white, late in a season of still air, long lens compression across bare ground. Work 9497.

The plywood kiosk warped in a month: three-ink poster in red black and grey of a cog-toothed constructed stage set of ramps, the last constructivist years. Work 9496.

A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples. Work 9495.

High vantage frame from a gantry of a pneumatic tube city, Svema colour negative gone orange, dye fade in the cyan layer. Work 9494.