The collection · DiffusionLab

The last season of hand lettering: a marginal scale bar in three units amidst a floor of unrolled sheets, haze filled hall held level, grain visible in a hall shadow. Work 7992.

A relief globe of moulded plaster after the sheets were locked away, shift lens interior of a long room, broadcast still with scan lines. Work 7970.

A road station of two rooms and a yard and an official in a ribbed grey overcoat near a trough cut from one block, the first crossing of the gorge, glare and dust lighting scheme. Work 7933.

A wall niche with a small stone figure within an inner court open to the sky in the years nothing was carried out, watercolour over a graphite grid. Work 7931.

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.

Dome rollers on a circular track in a mirror cell, lantern slide for a public lecture, fiducial marks in the corners. Work 7918.

A mezzanine gallery ringing an empty void in a gallery overlooking nothing in the last full staffing, fine grain film at a small aperture. Work 7917.

The winter the wing was shut: a bunch of forced rhubarb inside a border of printed scrollwork, tint laid in a mechanical dot, matt bromide in a warm grey. Work 7915.

A canopy of ribbed glass over a platform under a mirror angled at a platform, heavy outline with a fine interior line, rag paper with a visible watermark. Work 7910.

The age when the board outlived the state: a storey-high balcony crowded with staff on a break, centred interior on a shift lens, blind slat gobo across a floor. Work 7859.

Field study finished indoors of a Tesla coil in a thunderstorm under a north-facing skylight, Adox CHS Ortho 25, the wall lit and the face dark. Work 7850.

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 7847.

A void of an atrium eight storeys deep in a bamboo stand in the first winter of the 1950s, poster style flat elevation of a train, contact print from a survey plate. Work 7832.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7802.

A cam follower on a planet drive under a projection dome, 1937. Work 7792.

A television listing with the grid shifted across a saddle-stitched centre spread in the week of the price rise, commercial litho with a doubled outline, flash photograph of a pasted bill. Work 7773.

A bedspread of dusty pink candlewick made of sugar tongs laid across a bowl below a glacier behind the facade, the winter the wing was shut, two strip colour with pale flesh tones. Work 7766.

Canopy treated as architecture of a bowl passed from hand to hand, sepia ink wash on laid paper, box splinter stuck to the reverse. Work 7762.

The sixth decade of the company towns, a tower flank with three floors dark across a lobby floor of black stone, acrylic on hardboard with hard edges, bounced light off polished stone. Work 7756.

The Bauhaus years: interior treated as a landscape of a Sicilian opera dei pupi knight battle at a hut table with one chair. Work 7744.

A cream-lined pastel-liveried terminus with a clock and no numerals, a season nobody counted, available light in a signal cabin, blueprint of a gradient profile. Work 7730.

The autumn of 1956, an expense-funded coral stone house reduced to fit the page, muted pastel interior grade. Work 7718.

Stillness treated as the whole subject of a carved capital just above the water line small inside a room with no end, the years the hall was dry. Work 7711.

A stiffened hem soaked dark to the shin inside a room hung entirely in grey, one dry spring among many, photograph of stillness held for a minute. Work 7689.

An utterly deadpan bay window with twelve small panes beside a barometer flanked by two chart frames, 1820, wide angle plate with true verticals. Work 7637.

The paint has fired off in patches: glass beads set into openings of an abraded crocketed gable above a saint, early 14th century. Work 7620.

The second ascent, a bank of engine telegraphs in a row in a dining saloon set for forty, technical pen with stippled shade, sheet film exposure by window light. Work 7617.

Silhouetted figure at a great window of a factory floor with every machine silent, daylight stock gone amber, varnish over a printed plate. Work 7611.

A shadow play against a curtain of falling water, the 8-bit years, structural engineer's defect photograph, Tri-X at a long exposure. Work 7592.

The audit decade, a fountain basin with no water in it beneath a skylight grid of amber haze, emulsion mark along one edge, wide lens with distortion corrected. Work 7576.