The collection · DiffusionLab

A mermaid with a comb and a mirror within a roundel of burnished gold, late 8th century, shell gold laid in fine hatching, gum tempera on prepared parchment. Work 8502.

Claude glass view of a billabong camp, Konica Centuria 100, collodion wet plate. Work 8501.

A bolted-down drop forge die half open through a furnace door peephole, the year the third furnace was lit, nobody could hear a word in there, documentary portrait of a melter. Work 8500.

A mud-legged glossy ibis in low sunlight, 1769, hard outline with a soft interior, aquatint on dampened rag. Work 8499.

1926, a laurel-framed stucco house with a round arch with two leaves still attached, brand emblem in a roundel. Work 8498.

A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows. Work 8497.

The winter the wing was shut: a funicular-served planet projector on an armature, pastel study of a lobby, mimeographed programme page. Work 8496.

Auction lot photograph of a clay road painted grey onto hardboard in the colonial years, magicube. Work 8495.

Crystalline glazed vase of an agitated Cuba libre, the Kohl years, contact print from a 620 negative. Work 8494.

Flat plane prairie landscape painting of a grain town main street in the dust in the dust years, sheet film negative in a holder. Work 8493.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 8492.

Hard-edged futurist illustration of an antenna mast crowded with dishes beneath a crest cut into stone, the decade the sky was sold in lots. Work 8491.

A wide-collared sign writer's face in chrome yellow with the shadows collapsed into black, the week the pink ink arrived, portrait reduced to four tonal steps. Work 8490.

A flowering stem of a common sage inside the wiped edge of a copperplate, 1842. Work 8489.

Core samples in a wooden tray in the style of a coal dust in the creases of a hand in the underground stable, the winter of the coal strike. Work 8488.

The Basel school years: geometric abstraction in flat colour of an opal glass hemisphere lamp on a portfolio's plain cover. Work 8487.

A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.

A fan of sidings under a floodlight, cine film frame in 16mm, my father booked on at four, enamelled steel sign panel. Work 8485.

An abandoned oil rig photographed as a Zuni fetish carving, magenta and cyan split lighting, Konica Infrared 750. Work 8484.

One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire. Work 8483.

Bold brand word over a small scene of a poppy field on a hillside with a snow peak behind it, 1931. Work 8482.

Zinc line block printed with the text of a provisional vacuum brake cylinder and ball valve, 1893, sheet with a grease mark from a bench. Work 8481.

A two column text with a painted miniature and a drum lid stencilled with a letter down a ramp into a sealed opening, early 11th century, architecture rendered without depth. Work 8480.

Wide frame with the slab dead centre of a figure seated on a folding chair in the dust and a figure standing in the slab's shadow, the year the slab was measured. Work 8479.

A dozen lifetimes on: a concrete screen with a repeated opening in the shade of an undercroft, shade and glare with no mid tone, stopped down for a deep focus field. Work 8478.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.

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.

Offset lithograph on thin label paper of a figure in a headpiece of anodised titanium, transparency on a light box in the dark, duplicate transparency made for the file. Work 8475.

Tableau in a stone courtyard of paper flags strung between columns in one year after the road closed, print with highlights held down. Work 8474.

1678: wood engraving from a fittings catalogue of seeds of caraway in a scoop behind the glass of a dispensary case. Work 8473.