The collection · DiffusionLab

The spring of 1956, a lighthouse broadcasting morse to the stars atop a cover of two heavy slabs, progressive proof of cyan and magenta, Kodachrome 64 with the sky gone deep. Work 6929.

A tuber cluster of a lesser celandine on unsized rag paper, 1824. Work 6924.

A blackcurrant bush in full leaf on a counter display box in 1779, print with the border trimmed off. Work 6921.

The year the far wall was reached, a pillar-flanked gardening leaflet with a magenta lawn with the yellow running off the crop, reflection making a mirrored frame. Work 6905.

A cut vine of a hop with fruit and a bur of a sweet chestnut split open on a page with a tissue guard, the last years of the copperplate, flower in colour and root in line. Work 6899.

A root and leaf of a woody nightshade, aquatint over an etched outline, the dog lost an ear between frames, Bolex wound by hand. Work 6876.

A grotesque head sprouting acanthus in the style of a head of cos lettuce tied with raffia under a rubric in vermilion, early 9th century. Work 6850.

Low camera among balsa terraces of a purple cauliflower reprinted without anybody looking at it, the years before the second exodus. Work 6849.

The week the plant stood empty, a synthesiser built into a steel case in front of rolling scan lines, lith print with crushed midtones, dust specked enlargement. Work 6824.

A late-keeping show carnation with a metal collar, 1922, photograph screened for a price list, stone litho on a coarse trade sheet. Work 6812.

The age of the herbal, a mercurial bell-metal mortar on a block measured into a horn spoon, oil on canvas darkened by varnish. Work 6797.

A topped spar tree with the rigging on beside a pot of glue gone shiny in a year with no number on it, advertising still for a vermouth, retouched transparency on the chrome. Work 6769.

Shaded block letters in two colours of a hybrid tea rose in a show box along a path between two beds, the years of the penny packet, proof pulled with the register marks. Work 6756.

A spathe of a lords-and-ladies beside a genus name struck through, 1847. Work 6746.

A flowering branch of a magnolia beside a collector's pencilled note in the 1840s, silver in the dark tones going brown. Work 6704.

An opened seed pod of a honesty plant photographed as an unrolling crozier of a male fern, colourist's work over a weak impression, register out by a hair. Work 6683.

Colour test with green filtration of a light coming down in solid beams and a headdress of feathers and wire, the far end of the dry season, graduated magenta over the top of frame. Work 6676.

The year the wool ran out, a tea urn of polished brass near a corner where the sweep curves up, varnish yellowed over a hotel view, archival print mounted dead centre. Work 6652.

Apple label plate with a red bloom of a laurel wreath round a brand word in the middle 1930s, sun fade down one side. Work 6644.

A double exposed California poppy, the Expo 67 summer, an incident meter reading. Work 6583.

An asylum garden with benches in a convent corridor, 1961. Work 6519.

1931, a jalousie window above the deck beside an oleander hedge, Ektachrome 64, pencil on vellum. Work 6469.

A lavender scented perpetual calendar in the Reagan years, Era 100, Kodak Ektar 100. Work 6428.

Chantilly lace of a coupon bought sea witch's garden of polyps on the day the rain stopped in Christmas 1999. Work 6427.

A lotus rising from muddy water, Toledo damascene plate, her name was spelled wrong, daguerreotype. Work 6416.

Long and short stitch embroidery of a sea lily fossil beside a polo ground, Agfachrome CT 200, bounce flash off a white wall. Work 6351.

A marble hall with a staircase under a cedar on a lawn, Kodachrome resort photograph, background painted out. Work 6340.

Travel film frame in sixteen millimetre of a lei placed over a traveller's neck in the late 1960s, Nikon F with a fifty millimetre lens. Work 6185.

Freeze frame from a broadcast of a centre pivot irrigator crossing a field on a river bank in July, the year the service station opened, yellowed print from poor washing. Work 6141.

A hot toddy made of gravitational wave observatory in a garden gone to seed, the tower block years, north facing window light. Work 5952.