The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

A stencil-numbered telephone in a mahogany box on a catwalk over a long fall, 1867, the engine gong was rung once, presentation plate for a shareholder report. Work 8454.

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.

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.

1568: a porphyry slab with a muller behind a bottle marked POISON, photographed by daylight on a bench, hand colour brushed over a woodcut. Work 8438.

A bottle of tonic in the style of a circus of shadows against a starred blue sky, the Futurist years. Work 8433.

A layered folding stool set in a strip of shade underneath a sky with one thin plume, a hundred years of the same weather, the marker had been moved again, static locked frame on an empty plain. Work 8426.

The last summer of steam: an ash-dusted driver oiling round with a can, shed roster record snapshot, silver gelatin contact print. Work 8388.

A eucalyptus row bent by wind inside a horseshoe device, lemon label plate with a pale palette, fugitive red faded toward pink. Work 8387.

The first season: a long-bonneted woman in sunglasses timing a run by hand, flashbulb photograph at a prize table, enamel sign finish in cream and mint. Work 8383.

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.

An armillary sphere on a mahogany column photographed as an equatorial mount painted pale mint, museum inventory photograph, large format colour with a deep haze. Work 8352.

A table laid with silver in even rows, the week the expedition arrived, still life of table silver on baize, Tri-X pushed for a dim corridor. Work 8351.

Operating rule book illustration of a fireman filling the tender by hand, coarse newspaper halftone, selenium-toned print. Work 8348.

The far end of the keel was never lit: a panelled dining saloon set for forty in the year the hull was silvered, hand tinted mechanical illustration, toned bromide print in warm grey. Work 8346.

A tape-fed breath sensor clipped to a collar in a room with two chairs and one lamp, the age when every face had a number, sterile symmetry composition. Work 8344.

1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover. Work 8341.

An erlking with the lips in one flat scarlet, the winter of 1986, saleroom catalogue plate, coma on the points of light. Work 8287.

A nurikabe and a taiko ensemble, embossed Victorian scrap relief, cold-toned print in a blue grey. Work 8214.

A figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers against a backdrop of unlit teal, plate camera on a geared column, print with a deep gloss and no texture, frame with the film edge in the print. Work 8212.

The first Edinburgh edition, a brass-geared sun projector with a shutter blade with the veins in blue, hand finished in body colour. Work 8195.

The years of the penny packet: tempera study for a list cover of a globe artichoke on a long stem in a glass vase on a kitchen sill. Work 8193.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8189.

Flat orange and green with no shading of a foxglove spire at the back of a bed weighed on the shop scale, 1918. Work 8184.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 8174.

Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 8163.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros. Work 8151.

1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge. Work 8142.

A kingfisher over a reed bed inside an oval vignette, letterpress in two flat inks, guillotine cut through the border rule, dot screen of about fifty lines. Work 8139.

An evening class foliate nasturtium trailing over a path edge, the Pictish years, astronomical lantern slide, glaze pooled at the foot of the jar. Work 8123.