The collection · DiffusionLab

A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples. Work 8982.

A breathing filter on a cheek, underwater colour transparency, the log was in pencil because of the wet, dyeline copy of a work study sheet. Work 8981.

A mission-belled flat horizon with one machine on it beside a smoke going flat in the rotor wash, the short season of clear mornings, banded sky colour treatment. Work 8980.

A relief of a coiled serpent on a plinth beneath a timber gallery on corbels in the age before the relief was cut, calotype negative on waxed paper. Work 8979.

A lemon crate stencilled with a port name made of walkers on a stile above a valley at the end of a long platform, the 1931 winter season, pochoir plate with crisp edges. Work 8978.

Opening night press photograph of a padded door with a small window and a zodiac inlay underfoot, 1937, filmstrip frame with sprocket edges. Work 8977.

A shadow of a ring across its own spoke photographed as a dry bay with a hull opened up, press agency shot of a press hall, no fill and no reflector at all. Work 8976.

The century the pumps never stopped, a low-ceilinged kettle set on a hot pipe deep below the street, painted plate of an underground city. Work 8975.

An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain. Work 8974.

A dwarfed steward carrying a sealed white tumbler, the season of the standing watch, spotless colour internegative. Work 8973.

1943: a juice glass beside a halved orange on a crate under a loading chute, tissue wrapper printing in one ink, bronze lettering with a dull glint. Work 8972.

Navajo weaving of a man in a linen suit raising a trophy overhead, colour balanced to the grey ground, bulk loaded film in a reused cassette. Work 8971.

An exploded diagram of a household object, technical illustration, line art. Work 8970.

The Berlin wool years: stork scissors on a linen cloth over two threads of the ground, Jacobean crewelwork in six shades, two colour litho out of register. Work 8969.

A stalactite forming on a carved boss beside a fern in a joint above the line, vellum sheet with a ruled margin, watercolour over a graphite grid, palladium print in warm grey. Work 8968.

A granite-faced wheel rut cut a hand deep into stone, the time when the figures had faces, frontal record of a colossal gateway, halation glowing at the gate opening. Work 8967.

A silt-caked camera crane sweeping over the risers shadowed by a leaning canopy, a dress run in 1976, wide screen matte painting look. Work 8966.

A surveyed lighthouse with its arc of visibility under a title in engraved script, the age of the chart sellers, the surveyor never reached the far bank, printed from a plate reworked twice. Work 8965.

1827, a hawfinch with a cherry stone on a shingle spit, outline printing dry in the thin lines, lithograph with the stone grain showing. Work 8964.

A span carried on two heavy piers at the point where the ramp meets the floor in the year the seasons ran backwards, high saturation reversal stock. Work 8963.

Confessional diary photograph of a kurent, streetlight through a rainy window, half plate negative held level. Work 8962.

The seed was saved from last year: oil sketch of a prize vegetable of a slug-eaten red cabbage cut in half, 1903. Work 8961.

A dish array in a ring on flat hardpan with the plate still wet, before the dune sea was mapped, popular astronomy magazine halftone, fiducial marks in the corners. Work 8960.

A twin pyramids joined by a lit bridge at the foot of a four hundred metre flank, the age when the board outlived the state. Work 8959.

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.

The Hundred Years War: technical manual cutaway of a sloop beside a cairn on a bare saddle. Work 8957.

Frame shot from a second machine of a grass-beaten matched pair of towers rising out of rust haze, the week of low sun, duotone in grey and pink. Work 8956.

Rendered as a plate from a site report of a capital of stone leaves half submerged, selenium toning for cold deep blacks, single sheet exposed at slack water. Work 8955.

Before the pharmacopoeia was fixed: key plate in black with flats to come of a crystallised angelica in a jar against a flat cobalt ground. Work 8954.

The year of the coast survey: a gallery rail of turned spindles behind a sloped clerk's desk, schools map handout figure, lithographic transfer on stone. Work 8953.