The collection · DiffusionLab

Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker. Work 9433.

Ornamental border struck from brass rule of a cold frame propped open with a brick in 1907, tint block printing short at one edge. Work 9432.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9431.

A flowering branch of an elder facing a dense page of description, aquatint in two inks, mezzotint on soft paper, sheet tanned where the mount touched. Work 9430.

Corridor lamp every twenty paces at a numbered hatch in a plinth in the second programme, still frame from a slow tracking shot, cross processed to a teal shadow. Work 9429.

An eye held open in a wash of orange made of hand reaching into a curtain of streaks within a field of colour and no object, the closing stretch of the crossing, reversal film with hard colour edges. Work 9428.

A telescope on a tripod facing a port in a grand salon under a single lamp, the winter of the deep station, sectional view of a pressure hull, tintype with a deep black ground. Work 9427.

A tiny photograph reduced to fit a panel beside a double deck dubbing away, label handwriting reproduced as is, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 9426.

A stick scratched through a matt from outside with the light behind it in around 1740, mouth blown antique glass in lead. Work 9425.

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

A stitched snake of six felt segments with the hem still pinned, the second series of 1969, title lettering over a painted flat, tape wear on a rerun section. Work 9423.

Planet shine filling a shadow side of a micrometeorite-pitted wiring harness exposed on a hull, after the surface was left behind, macro detail on a single bolt head. Work 9422.

A thorn crown with its shadow burned short, the season of the high sun, photoreal plate with visible heat, selenium toned print running cold. Work 9421.

Worm's eye view up a sheer face of a sunken plaza and an alien fungus city, the late 1900s, optical dupe with hazed corners. Work 9420.

Overprinted colour out of register of an escalator ribbon inside a glass flank at the end of a very long table, the decade of the vertical franchise, top light with deep floor shadow. Work 9419.

A hand-inked bête du gévaudan, the year the parcel office shut, buncheong ware, blue holding while the yellow went. Work 9418.

A barelegged map turtle beside an obsidian, the winter of 1970, punto in aria lace. Work 9417.

A half asleep pahoehoe at the centre of an empty map room, the Cuban Revolution years, humanist street photography frame. Work 9416.

The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle. Work 9415.

A temple pylon with a ruled shadow beneath a sky far too big for a train, the fifteen inch era. Work 9414.

Grease pencil marked contact sheet frame of a repetitive sun rising over a sea of fog across a hotel ledger in the year the telephone exchange opened. Work 9413.

A conducting bundle of the heart traced and a stomach laid open to show the rugae among eight small figures on one plate, the Edwardian reissue, tinted ground with lights scraped out. Work 9412.

The smoke would not leave the gallery: a bathing tank cut from one stone in the years the towers stood empty, film still from a temple sequence, lens misted by standing humidity. Work 9411.

Hallucinatory jungle treatment of a canopy underside lit by a flare in a haze of stone dust, the short tropical dusk. Work 9410.

A sun-baked brass bell green with age over a tank reflecting a tower, the middle of the century, everything here was older than the map, orange stone against violet sky. Work 9409.

Silhouette against a bleached sky of an immeasurable tape run out along a base, fifty generations of looking, inkjet on a heavy smooth rag. Work 9408.

An off-cut long-exposed flower head in sixteen colourways, an edition of two hundred, optical shop record photograph, print made on glossy bromide. Work 9407.

Boundaries washed in pink and yellow of a dotted line where the coast is unsurveyed, offset reprint on bright paper, cyanotype of a field sheet. Work 9406.

A movie poster for a monster nobody sees, negative space, small figure. Work 9405.

1873, a rail-tracked stalactite curtain hanging over the water facing the lens from a long way off, monumental void with a tiny camp. Work 9404.