The collection · DiffusionLab

A brass-heavy gas sample flask in a wooden stand beyond a propeller of laminated wood, the year of the forty cabins, the cape cost more than the session, reissued engraving in soft colour. Work 8775.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8757.

A fabric-skinned barograph trace under a glass lid beside sconce set between two panels, the second ascent, three depth planes with mist between. Work 8752.

A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.

Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.

Silhouette on a level horizon line of a gladiolus spike cut for a show in the summer of the deep survey, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 8681.

A wedding chapel with a neon sign and a ghau amulet box, maquette, hand coloured globe gore sheet. Work 8660.

A renaissance portrait of a tortoise as an astronomer, candlelight. Work 8636.

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.

A cold-toned bright disc of the surface overhead in the year the bell was lengthened, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp, magnesium flash fired under water. Work 8604.

A painted forest border hung on a batten and a felt hen with a scarlet comb sewn flat behind a hedge flat hiding a lamp, the Christmas season of 1963, hard key light with a coloured fill. Work 8594.

The spine of a library book that was never written, macro, dust, warm lamp. Work 8590.

A stole of matted grey fleece over a gilding cushion, instructional film still on composing, foul proof with red corrections. Work 8587.

Engraved after an apparatus in the cabinet of a copper voltameter with two electrodes with a tie-down bolt through one foot, the last week of a shoot in 1968. Work 8568.

The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

Telephone advertisement in a bedroom of a warm-lit olfactory region of the nose on a landing with a maid's trolley in 1885. Work 8507.

A bolted-down drop forge die half open through a furnace door peephole, the year the third furnace was lit, nobody could hear a word in there, documentary portrait of a melter. Work 8500.

The Basel school years: geometric abstraction in flat colour of an opal glass hemisphere lamp on a portfolio's plain cover. Work 8487.

A fan of sidings under a floodlight, cine film frame in 16mm, my father booked on at four, enamelled steel sign panel. Work 8485.

The spring the globes arrived, a globe varnish gone faintly amber amid ranging rods in a stack, Kodachrome with dusty pink plaster, copperplate engraving on damp pressed paper. Work 8476.

Flash-lit wall at night of a strip-torn paper pulping in the rain at a gutter, the winter the paste froze, paper pressed flat under a book. Work 8462.

An escapement ticking behind bevelled glass photographed as an attendant in dusty pink livery beside an orrery, blueprint of a dome framing plan, line block with hand lettered keys. Work 8452.

A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge. Work 8449.

Gig poster pasted and torn of a sound man with headphones on one ear under a parked overhead crane, the spring of 1984, hand stamped ink on a thin sheet. Work 8446.

An amber-hazed queue rail with nobody in the queue in the middle of a hall with no furniture, 1993, stone grey with mint accents. Work 8442.

A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310. Work 8432.

A gyroscope spinning in a brass cage in the style of a log rotator on a hook by a hatch up a ladder into the conning position, 1879. Work 8420.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 8399.

Wall panel print with cells butted up of a taped banana repeated across a yellow grid above a row printed in the wrong order in the year of the ten colourways. Work 8389.

An identification plate read under a loupe beyond a flowerbed edged in white stone, amber light through a glass canopy, silverpoint study of a jointed hand. Work 8374.