The collection · DiffusionLab

The age when every face had a number: a flyer half peeled by a thumbnail against a corrugated panel, banner portrait in two loud inks, panel stamped while the ink was wet. Work 7391.

A face half in shadow and half in magenta half in magenta and half in dark, the turn of the 1970s, saturated unnatural colour still, halation around a burning flare. Work 7345.

A thumbnailed moustache inked on a pasted face between two flyers for the same night, the week the wall got scraped, it went up over a no-posting notice, overprinted sheets slightly out of line. Work 7302.

A slicked gangster's profile in flat scarlet inside a bus station of flat panels, the second sitting, the pink was mixed until it hurt to look at, photo-stencil portrait print. Work 7242.

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.

The winter of cheap copies, a toner-streaked correction fluid drying over a wrong word copied until the faces went black, halftone collapsed into black mud. Work 7149.

Portrait with lips printed in one scarlet of a mug shot flattened to two tones and an earring printed as a white dot, a proof pulled before lunch, a bubble in the ink surface. Work 7013.

Fontanelles of the newborn head and a corpus callosum from within, steel plate work with ruled backgrounds, thick paper with a deckle edge left uncut. Work 6994.

A bee-hived student's face in poison turquoise, a proof pulled before lunch, line block reproduction. Work 6904.

An axe-squared face wrapped against the reflected sun in the short season of good crust, carbon print in a single black pigment, screen print in black over white stock. Work 6859.

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.

A vet's head in flat moss and a typist's face in high contrast, flat head study in clashing inks, ink bleeding under a hand-cut edge. Work 6835.

An eye reflected in glass made of man laughing alone in a bare white room, the late 1960s, deep focus stopped down. Work 6362.

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 movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 5586.

An ill-tempered green man in a cloud forest, phad scroll painting, subject moved, courtroom daylight. Work 5540.

Corrupted JPEG of a weevil when the magic wears off, face out of frame. Work 5502.

Mechanical flower, Kwakwaka'wakw transformation mask, indignant, north light. Work 5380.

Calibrated to the moon: a bogeyman in an infinite library, sonar display. Work 5311.

A nightcap, paper carrier bag, day-glo, Blu Tack stains. Work 5178.

A soap fish-scale steam off a horse's back, Vanessa Bell still life, proud of nothing, patio heater glow. Work 5171.

A hornet in the style of a gully sucker, light through a grille. Work 5166.

A brand new wendigo that runs on gossip, VistaVision frame, CMYK offset. Work 5135.

Direct mail flyer of a dot to dot puzzle on a banknote, video call grid. Work 5109.

Poster of stone heads from the Easter island, beautiful symmetrical face, cinematic composition. Work 5095.

Nazarene painting of a junk shop owner buried in lamps on a rock face, symmetrical. Work 5058.

A lollipop-striped fluorescent lava lake, matryoshka paintwork, relegated, lith print. Work 4995.

An apothecary cabinet and a wren on a Rio favela rooftop, Olmec colossal head. Work 4992.

A dark, slow motion replay, veiling glare. Work 4918.

A portcullis, Hakuin daruma painting, forensic, wheel level shot. Work 4827.