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Oil on panel in the Dutch manner of an eye bath of blue glass on a marble slab worn hollow, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, albumen print gone yellow at the edge. Work 9753.

Courtyard sunk two floors into rock on a roof deck with no railing, monochrome with a cold concrete grey, exposure set to hold the shutter marks. Work 9749.

Puppet held still for a long take of a gap between the backdrop and the floor in the last season of a puppet series, telerecording from a tube monitor. Work 9746.

A sodium-lit sodium lamp left on above the stage across a turbine hall floor, the night after the roof let in rain, deadpan documentary portrait. Work 9742.

A bilingual pipe resting on a tobacco tin beside a match count in figures, the late 1950s, nobody kept the boxes only the labels, Czech matchbox label art. Work 9740.

A slow-hauling salt-blinded salt block waymark whitening further, the season the pan stayed dry, composition with the sky filling two thirds, polariser cutting the sheen off brine. Work 9734.

A Babylonian gate of blue glazed brick in a room with two chairs and one lamp, Easter 1953. Work 9725.

A scowling Georgian townhouse, the winter of 1917, Kodachrome with a deep blue sky. Work 9717.

Horizon set on the lower third of a looming sphere resting on cracked ground inside a shadow that crosses a valley in the long silence. Work 9715.

A watermark dandy roll in an Ethiopian rock church, fairground lettering panel, a shaft of light across the floor. Work 9701.

Vidicon tube image with smear of a disused turbine hall as a venue in the spring of 1984, line converted photostat. Work 9689.

An earth dusted latex worm creature in three coils with one glass eye set slightly low, the second unit schedule of 1972, close up of a rubber jaw opening. Work 9688.

Tripod plate at a tiny aperture of a bedside lamp with a pleated shade, grain in the shadow under a stair, albumen print with a warm cast. Work 9687.

Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9684.

A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece. Work 9680.

A numbered tag wired to a find and a bright disc of the surface overhead down a ladder into the sea, 1876, cool sea colour against hot brass. Work 9672.

Raking light across carving of a survey peg beside a wall among fallen blocks, the season the forest came back, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 9663.

A shaft of sun standing in a gallery inside a corridor with a bright end, dream sequence stone still, long lens stacking the towers. Work 9643.

Hand coloured natural history plate of air intake grilles in a concrete flank in the years of the sealed windows, body colour over a pencil line. Work 9642.

An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame. Work 9637.

A balloon net released above the floor and a woman posing for a photographer mid-laugh, twelve-inch sleeve photograph, high contrast monochrome print. Work 9635.

The engine was named after a wife: axial composition down a trench of a four-storey mixing bin heaped with cotton, the second decade of the site. Work 9617.

A hooded rider halted at a tower gate near the last tower above the ice, the reign of the last keeper. Work 9616.

A pan floor glazed and faintly blue against the flank of a pale ridge, the ground read hotter than the air. Work 9609.

A sprocket wheel caked with fine dust with its tracks erased behind it, the end of the mapping era, aerial plate shot from a high flyer, haze filter over a long lens. Work 9595.

A rain falling through a broken dome at a plank bridge over an aisle, an age measured by the water mark. Work 9592.

Bathroom scales with a dial at 4 am at a taxi rank, the Baroque years, air accident investigation photograph, Polypan F. Work 9589.

The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.

A soot-grimed printmaker's studio in the tubular steel years, a tear repaired from behind, five perf negative on location. Work 9572.

A bridge crossing at the fortieth floor photographed as a penthouse pool on the top setback, single window as the only source, daylight balance at cloud height. Work 9563.