The collection · DiffusionLab

A tilted slab leaning against nothing and a fin rank set like a row of teeth across a plain of dark gravel, after the third expedition returned, atmospheric depth in five bands. Work 9691.

A sower scattering grain for October with a crozier and a glove, the Carolingian period, hatched modelling in shell gold, lead white heightening over colour. Work 9677.

A tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 9675.

A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.

Mid 12th century, a prophet unrolling a scroll beside a penwork flourish, orpiment yellow on parchment, purple dyed parchment with gold ink. Work 9664.

The faces were all the same face: side lit relief photography of grass-jointed carved face four metres across, the time of the second survey. Work 9659.

The turn of the tide at dawn, a palm-lined group waiting at the edge of a clearing rimmed in orange along one edge, horizon high with water below. Work 9658.

The atlas was bound out of order: a figure at the hub of a rotating floor in the era of the sealed interiors, severe architectural rendering, plate with the tissue guard still bound in. Work 9652.

Offset print with a cyan ghost edge of a graded by height brass rod clamped to a wooden base, 1798, spot colour missing altogether. Work 9640.

A suited traveller against a wall of pure cyan at the edge of a widening white bar, the years without a horizon. Work 9620.

A bee-eater colony in a sandbank in old growth fir, the Polynesian voyaging years, chromolithograph with graded depth tints, chromolithograph in nine workings. Work 9619.

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

A bandsman's head in hot red beside a fairground booth front in a session in 1975, portrait in chrome yellow and violet, print taped to a studio wall. Work 9614.

Available light reportage frame of a crate of mismatched connectors and a wrist held out for a reader, the age when signage outlived the state, black pro-mist over neon. Work 9611.

The wedge years, a man in a leather blouson beside a turbo badge beside a doorman at a brass rail, print with the corner clipped for a file, monochrome print on glossy fibre paper. Work 9605.

A thread-strung blackmailing German pickle ornament, the Expo 67 summer, mail order coupon page illustration, diffraction at f22. Work 9603.

Charmingly stiff street scene of a cutting sides of plaster over wire under a fall of talcum snow, Ektachrome transparency on a light box, shadow detail lost under a hard lamp. Work 9601.

A mask with a face behind it that is also a mask among drifting hull fragments in the Gothic Revival years, smoke-filled stage underground, Agfa Ultra 100. Work 9596.

A figure turned to face the vent against a wall of wet black rock in a summer with the sun behind cloud, landscape plate with a costumed subject, colour left exactly as the meter read. Work 9591.

Plate printed in olive then hand finished of a waxy flowering head of a wild carrot, 1839, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 9588.

Blue and black inks on one pull of a sympathetic chain beside the vertebrae, two colour letterpress in black and brick red, wood engraving printed with the text. Work 9576.

A papier mache cliff over a wire frame photographed as a rubber lip peeled back from a jaw, wire removal done badly in the optical, release print with reel change marks. Work 9566.

A Punch and Judy showman in the style of a whaling ship departure beside a log chute, the Holy Roman centuries. Work 9561.

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.

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.

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.

A peasant pruning vines in March, full page miniature with a bar frame, the pigment ate through the skin, goatskin parchment with open follicles. Work 9489.

Colour negative work pushed for density of a procession of figures in stacked collars with a fish still on the spear, the last week of a wet winter. Work 9479.

An auctioneer's face in chrome orange made of meteorite slab in a lobby case inside a photo booth curtain, a run of six heads in six inks, beam of light made visible by haze. Work 9477.

Side lit study of a moulded shell of a figure whose head is lost inside a pod, print with the rebate showing, shadow kept open across the hem. Work 9473.