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Survey markers ringing a monolith and a vehicle parked against a colossal base under a structure set into a cliff, before the structures were counted, no fill light on the shadow side. Work 8312.
A factory floor annular eclipse through clouds over a docking ring with its guides lit, New Year 1950, folding bellows camera snapshot. Work 8269.
An ice auger turning in thick floe with two hundred miles to go, the mid 1920s, depot location sketch map, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 8263.
A heat column rising with no cloud above made of walker stopped with its back to the sun above a band of shivering air, the far end of a long afternoon, 4x5 transparency in full glare. Work 8204.
Ultra wide composition with two thirds sky of a salt-stiffened column of figures crossing a dune crest, a week of unbroken white sky, five perf 65mm stock rated slow. Work 8203.
The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge. Work 8192.
Sparrows in the driveway rafters made of elevator reflected in a slough beside a slough in spring, the dust years, contact print from a roll film negative. Work 8188.
The season before the survey began, a mountain hut roped to a ridge beside a white esplanade rail, halftone only in the sky, blue faded toward grey. Work 8149.
Airline timetable cover illustration of a palm-fringed stewardess with a folded route map, the 1937 season, gouache on board photographed flat. Work 8127.
A woolly leaf of a mullein in outline across the gutter of an opened folio in 1828, flat wash under a fine outline, steel plate on wove paper. Work 8073.
A figure holding a pole taller than itself against a field of acid green moss, long exposure with the vapour smeared, print made on fibre based paper. Work 8057.
The week of low sun: a landing zone marked with coloured smoke against a mountain wall, dream sequence sunrise still, printed down to hold the disc. Work 8047.
A grey-going staple row along a telephone pole peeled back to the layer beneath, the winter the paste froze, photograph of a photocopy on a wall. Work 8041.
A ridge after ridge to a white sky photographed as a guide pointing at an empty horizon, hyperreal render with grain in the air, dye transfer print in indigo and sand. Work 8038.
The artist never saw the valley: flat colour lithography with a keyline of a brass-plated joshua tree against a pale sky, the middle 1930s. Work 8028.
A gravel-floored tool rack with outlines painted behind beside a pool with a level surface, the year of the fourth cavern, presentation plate for a learned society. Work 8014.
1797: a lichen planted privet hedge of clipped flock, plate finished in nine colours, magenta creeping into the slates. Work 8009.
A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing. Work 7990.
A ridge of red scoria against grey sky made of moss bed deep enough to sink into beside a pool of grey mud, an autumn of low pressure, frame with rain spots on the filter. Work 7974.
A root plate standing higher than a rider in the style of a bridge of one flat slab over a beck in a clearing floored with gold leaf, the old forest law. Work 7960.
Animation cycle repeated four times of a Rexine paper effigy burned for ancestors, Easter 1979, polarised sky above pale ground. Work 7922.
A bunk in a forecastle with a curtain and a spray freezing on a foredeck, fish box stencil lettering, grey scale with no white in it. Work 7919.
Worm's eye trunk composition of a bamboo-hemmed wet rock face under dripping vine past an offering in a tree fork in the short tropical dusk. Work 7914.
The long thaw: low horizon under an enormous wall of rock of a chain of seven towers along one ridge behind a padded door. Work 7890.
Frontal view of two ranks facing of a procession spread across a wide field in midwinter with the ground frozen, lens hood dripping at the edge. Work 7865.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 7860.
The ending was changed by the editor: sound effect lettered in outline of an electrified wrestler in a horned mask, the middle 1960s. Work 7846.
A dog eared spleen with the trabeculae shown, the Edwardian reissue, two colour printing in black and red, India proof on a thin sheet mounted down. Work 7840.
Brochure halftone of a sidereal dial with a single hand cleaned once a month, 1935. Work 7822.
Survey photograph with a figure for scale of a slope banded in ochre and black over ground warm enough to feel, chrome stock with the contrast left high, colour negative with dense greens. Work 7790.