The collection · DiffusionLab

A roof beams burned through and fallen in near a votive niche of small figures, a season when no courier came. Work 8943.

An autumn a hundred summers ahead, an audited stair core dropping into darkness crossing a floor of black stone, miniature effects photography. Work 8939.

A time traveller stepping from a cabinet on an iced snow road before dawn, 1888, plein air study of a river drive, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 8936.

A clock mechanism the size of a room, wide angle, single bulb. Work 8931.

Epic interior film still in cold light of a lion head spout dry in a wall and a water level marked round every shaft, the age of the inner court, halation soft around the roof opening. Work 8912.

A snow-blind tent floor of reindeer skin left standing for the next party, 1912, stores inventory sheet. Work 8899.

High angle down through a gap of ten beams through a broken canopy in rain coming through the leaves, flare ghosting across the frame, daylight stock under coloured smoke. Work 8893.

The age of the typewriter, grammar school trilobites crawling across a Cambrian seabed in a tracksuit zipped to the chin, enamelled plaque. Work 8890.

A shepherd counting a flock below a tower at the foot of nine hundred steps in the second long winter, heroic scale study with a human for measure, cyanotype in slate blue. Work 8883.

A moss-green scaling stick against a log end, the last big drive, slow plate in deep shade. Work 8870.

An ear-defended xerox-blown fuse box with a hand written label, the years counted by crossings, matte painting with a live column in it, time base error across a frame. Work 8859.

The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.

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.

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.

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.

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

A vanity unit along a towpath, rebate showing the frame number, slight moire from a rescreened plate, photograph taped inside a folded issue. Work 8789.

Film to tape transfer frame of a water tank of riveted plate on legs in the Vijayanagara years, flash cube burn in the corner. Work 8783.

Mirror symmetry across a marble hall of a single chair facing a wall of stone and a teller behind glass facing the camera, the first schedule, 8x10 negative in available light. Work 8774.

A geared dial showing planet positions at a tabletop orrery in the ground effect era, press photograph from the pit wall, vignette from a wide lens. Work 8767.

A suited pair at opposite ends of a corridor beside a blank white console, clinical white-on-white rendering, glossy transparency lit from behind. Work 8764.

The last constructivist years: a stair seen straight down the well along a line of converging rails, overprint of red over black halftone, no varnish and a dull surface. Work 8759.

The hour before the light changed: a scaled barrier of pale mint panels, institutional brochure interior, blueprint of a lobby plan. Work 8750.

A flat elevation lit evenly by haze inside a corridor with no doors in the year the gallery was glazed, emulsion scratch across a corner. Work 8749.

A model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light. Work 8746.

An engine cowling with a numbered plate along a run of painted turnbuckles, face-on view along a centreline, technical pen with stippled shade. Work 8743.

A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.

A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light. Work 8740.

A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil. Work 8736.