The collection · DiffusionLab

A moss-grown steam-lifting row of carved heads along a causeway, the last of the wet months, atmospheric layering over stone, exposed for the haze and not the stone. Work 8776.

A kimono spread open on a rack beside a stone water basin in 1842, round censor's seal at the edge. Work 8768.

A displaying black guillemot on a wet rock, 1854, photolithograph after a painting, sheet cockled where the wash was wet. Work 8713.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 8712.

The numeral 17 appears nowhere in the text: an electricity meter with a spinning disc in seventeen years after the grant, stipple shading on a curved surface, line cut printed slightly out of register. Work 8704.

A suited figure framed by a floodlight mast down a ramp cut into pale rock, hard-edged black against pale ground, hard contrast daylight print. Work 8685.

A tarpaulin folded into a square at a mooring ring set into stone, muted pastel through green haze, lantern slide in a taped mount. Work 8669.

A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.

A cash-rich moa browsing in a New Zealand forest, the spring of 1955, dissolving view slide, press flash negative in a holder. Work 8626.

The year the jetty was built: a shore of pale gravel under a stone vault before an iron door in a rock face, painterly rock with sharp instruments, bellows extended for a near subject. Work 8608.

Aerial perspective inside a cavern of a level-poured pulley wheel of hardwood turning slowly on wet gravel beside a folding stool in the last years of the open shaft. Work 8531.

A rocky islet crowned with pines in the style of a hare running across the waves among flowering plum branches, 1831. Work 8529.

Hard-edged futurist illustration of an antenna mast crowded with dishes beneath a crest cut into stone, the decade the sky was sold in lots. Work 8491.

Core samples in a wooden tray in the style of a coal dust in the creases of a hand in the underground stable, the winter of the coal strike. Work 8488.

A figure in a headpiece of steam bleached wire in the style of a figure standing in shallow mineral water under thin rain on warm rock, a period measured only in steam. Work 8457.

A seed-drifted carved stone head half sunk in leaf litter beside a lichen map spreading over pale bark, a season when the leaves did not fall, antiquarian plate of a wooded ruin. Work 8390.

Betamax tape still of a bog garden beside a rail of matching suits, a faded dye coupler stain, Kodak Ektar 1000. Work 8350.

A cairn of stacked slabs marking a fork along a road switchbacking into mist, sublime vista rendered without figures, single sheet exposed and developed on site. Work 8316.

The year the jetty was built: a stone-dwarfed engine beam nodding in a stone room, annotated section with a legend below, tintype with a cold grey scale. Work 8296.

A firewood stack under a root overhang beside a stream running clear on stone, sixteen pages on eight sheets, silver gelatin on a matte surface, telephoto at four hundred millimetres. Work 8283.

A perfectly axial water fountain set into a stone wall in the quiet tenancy, verticals held exactly parallel, 70mm interior frame. Work 8281.

A petal-strewn well shaft ringed with cut stone, the last season of clearing, bloom off a lit stone edge. Work 8280.

An iron ring set in a mossy slab on the gravel sweep of a great house, the third age of the great trunks. Work 8272.

A lichen-flecked road cut running into a rock face beside a tunnel portal with a concrete surround, the last of the great pours, monumental portrait of a structure. Work 8268.

A hallucinatory route number painted on a cliff base among stones set out by somebody, the season the horizon lied, the ground read hotter than the air, slow cinema frame with no movement in it. Work 8258.

A carving-lined carving furred with grey lichen beside a stone basin of green water, a day the stone stayed cool, a clerk numbered the sheets out of order, mirrored tower framing. Work 8206.

Cloud-wrapped slate-grey sledge runners for moving dressed stone, the winter the chain went dark, wide plate with the horizon on the lower third, ink wash on laid paper. Work 8176.

An incubating wren singing with the tail cocked, 1731, drypoint with the eye burnished bright, stone recut in the dark barring. Work 8170.

Backlit crowd rimmed in white of a forty steps cut into bedrock beneath a sky flat and white, the age when a well was the town, scratch along one sprocket edge. Work 8156.

A horse tethered at a shrine above a shoreline of grey rocks in the Bunsei years, wiped tone across a distant hill. Work 8148.