The collection · DiffusionLab

A time machine made of a grandfather clock, broderie anglaise, they never phoned back, Polaroid Spectra. Work 7926.

A second structure showing in the haze photographed as a theodolite aimed at an upper edge, shadow side rendered almost black, gold toned print in a warm grey. Work 7887.

A patented derailleur with a sprung jockey wheel beside a printing telegraph type wheel, the first year of the office serial, dash dot line for the centre axis. Work 7858.

A barometer tapped by a departing guest, the VHS era, raking light study of metal type, slight strobing between exposures. Work 7785.

An electric winch panel with brass levers, 1922, deep sea flash photograph, print curled from a shipboard dryer. Work 7727.

A rose patterned shadow of a tower across a courtyard in the winter of 1961, matte bromide print, Fujichrome with the greens forward. Work 7712.

1893, a machines sold off an empty floor at a shop counter with an order book, deckle edged handmade sheet, woodburytype in warm brown. Work 7658.

A hygrometer with a human hair movement, the spring the keys were renumbered, wide angle held perfectly square, colour transparency of brass and glass. Work 7634.

A cribbed elevator with a steep cupola roof, mill engineering sectional figure, grandfather waited six hours to unload, tape stain along a print edge. Work 7515.

Woodburytype tipped onto the page of a sphenoid bone seen from above on a plate with the publisher's imprint below, the decade before antiseptic surgery, lithograph printed from stone in warm grey. Work 7506.

A mission tower with two bells beside a packing house town name, the town on the label has gone. Work 7471.

A hardboard mounted brass meridian ring engraved in degrees beside a seam where two halves of a body met, the year colour television arrived, dome projection photograph. Work 7442.

Locked off camera at a platform end of a gauge dial in a brass case in a cabin round a curved brass grab rail, enamel sign finish in cream and mint, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light. Work 7400.

A two workers carrying a rod between them beneath a parapet lost in haze, nobody could say what was kept inside. Work 7375.

A worn-stepped figure tiny at the foot of a tower in the years of the survey, optical dupe with hazed corners, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 7331.

Wrong-coloured clock face repeated four times beside a boxing glove in nine panels, a summer print run, screenprint with the ink sitting raised. Work 7309.

A triangle on a panel of flat orange ink in the flood of 1927, instrument maker's catalogue plate, staple gun used up in one street. Work 7305.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 7290.

A geared orrery under a bevelled glass dome outside a pastel dome drum, copperplate plate on laid paper, chromolitho in muted pastels. Work 7249.

A thumb-worn atlas and axis articulated, the Carnaby Street years, veiling glare across the shadow side. Work 7199.

A fishmonger's price sheet gone cyan made of cooker leaflet with a shifted dial under a cyan ghost of itself, an unproofed run, ink drying with a chalky surface. Work 7197.

A narrated concentric rows of seats under a dome, 1956, copperplate figure of an armillary, star images spread by movement. Work 7175.

A portcullis of iron-shod timber and a hawk circling below the tower floor beneath a hanging valley, the long peace under the towers, vertical composition emphasising height. Work 7162.

Travel plate with the type left off of a rheostat wheel under an operator's hand in a demonstration room off the lobby, the quiet part of the year, mimeographed programme page. Work 7132.

A light-barred access ladder lashed to a tower in black lace over black velvet, the Age of Sail, long lens on a distant station. Work 7044.

Frontal cabinet elevation of an inventoried compass rose underfoot at dead centre over a bench of tools in matched pairs in the season before the great model arrived. Work 7018.

The printer ran out twice that session: a cupola with a figure at the glass in the CND years, volumetric shafts through mountain haze, carbon print in an earth pigment. Work 7008.

Human scale against an enormous flywheel of a bulged panel bowing out of true, box camera negative, tungsten balance in a marble hall. Work 6953.

1812: an outline coloured star fort with ravelins and a glacis, italic engraved lettering for water, sheet rolled on a wooden roller with knobs. Work 6910.

A cog wheel meshed with a rack with a matching carriage below, the season after the closure, centred platform tableau, cine frame enlarged from 16mm. Work 6889.