The collection · DiffusionLab

A tube rack of eighty identical mouths in the style of a ruling pen wiped on a cloth up a ladder to the high pigeonholes, the winter the sheets were copied. Work 8832.

A thunderhead above a dry range, label art with a hard black outline, the crate was broken up for kindling, nail hole through one corner. Work 8831.

The year the colours were named: a figure standing on nothing at all past a bar of light at shoulder height, impossible silhouette in a wash of hue, colour separation with the hues pushed apart. Work 8830.

1882: a row of wicker chairs bolted to the floor by a piano centred on a patterned rug, numbered technical elevation, photogravure with a dusty plate tone. Work 8829.

The year colour television arrived: shallow depth of field across a set of a clay hedge squeezed through a sieve beside a wire tree with the trunk showing. Work 8828.

A machine at rest with blades drooping under a wash of red dust, exposed for the sky and nothing else, archival positive with a hot sky, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 8827.

Camel-coated two men in overcoats beside a low slung wedge, midweek in 1987, varnished dealer poster. Work 8826.

An accountant's head in flat slate over a sheet taped at four corners, the second sitting, screenprint head over a halftone photo, guillotine cut through the chin. Work 8825.

Single frame move along a street of a gutter of split dowel along a roof, 16mm negative graded for a hobby film, black surround cropped to the town. Work 8824.

A claw carved from a lolly stick in the style of a horned goat beast with a wool beard within reach of the animator, one hundred and forty shots of 1962. Work 8823.

A bucket of ice on a smoked glass table under a bank of pin spots in the last of the deep soundings, focus stacked for a two mile depth. Work 8822.

Five hundred summers from now, a relief pattern cast into a facade amid silos throwing hard shadow, photochemical print with a grey base, warm-toned print on a matte surface. Work 8821.

A rebus of a name in a border, Arts and Crafts glazing in clear lights, it came out of a house being pulled down, lead came stopped with oily cement. Work 8820.

A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 8819.

Summit panorama joined from plates of a knife edge test in a dark corridor down a long spectrograph well, the late 1890s, halation halo around a bright star. Work 8818.

A flowering stem of a self-heal and a spike of a common plantain against paper gone ivory at the edge, 1851, cyanotype of a laid-down specimen. Work 8817.

A scratched vine leaf border in ruby and green within a vesica of ruby glass, late 13th century, the kiln lost a whole panel, small pieces jewelled into a border. Work 8816.

Offset art with a trapping gap all round of a newspaper colour supplement gone pink inside a panel with three plates aligned, cyan fringe along every dark edge, ink smear down the leading edge. Work 8815.

A haze-greyed silt shelf built up against a base in the long wet age, cyanotype in a deep slate blue, pigment print on cotton paper. Work 8814.

Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film. Work 8813.

A red-breasted goose pushed forward by the person behind, the first age of railways, woodcut, colour negative with dense greens. Work 8812.

Three colour mezzotint of a half timbered house, heavy contrast under hard lamps, colour gone warm in the dupe. Work 8811.

A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.

A frosted glass pine-shaded kishi with a hyena face behind its hair, the autumn of 1952, allotment society photograph, ink and wash on antiquarian paper. Work 8809.

An animal ears flat against a hot wind up the windward face of a dune, duotone of ochre and deep blue shade, drum scan with the dust left in. Work 8808.

Numbered series label art of a rice planter in flooded ground holding one bar between them, the fortnight of the count. Work 8807.

An air-conditioned stream of lights between vertical walls beside a cooling stack venting heat, the decade of the vertical franchise, human scale figure for reference. Work 8806.

A picket line breaking into a brawl inside a freight elevator in the week of the verdict, deep black built from three inks. Work 8805.

A counterweight of stacked brass discs above a plinth of pale marble, the season before the great model arrived. Work 8804.

A gliding speed skaters crouched on the line with the whole rink behind, a Saturday afternoon in 1980, home movie frame in Super 8. Work 8803.