The collection · DiffusionLab

The last season of hand lettering: a marginal scale bar in three units amidst a floor of unrolled sheets, haze filled hall held level, grain visible in a hall shadow. Work 7992.

Glass shown by two thin parallel lines of a propeller with adjustable blades, chromolithograph in seven colours, letterpress print on thin absorbent stock. Work 7991.

A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing. Work 7990.

A man in a ribbed collar too high to turn in in front of a blood-red alcove, the doors were numbered but not labelled. Work 7989.

A scrubbed fishing smack with tan sails, mid 1930s, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 7988.

A ribbon tied parachute caught on a church steeple, the Hungry Thirties, figure lit from one low lamp, plate fogged by returning daylight. Work 7987.

A traveller with both hands spread against light and a suited figure against a bar of saturated pink, wide gauge abstraction with a figure, print with the streaks rendered sharp. Work 7986.

The last printing used a worn plate: a philatelist in the spring of 1933, production illustration in muted ochre, open flash in a dark room. Work 7985.

A trunk-laden tiled corridor of identical doors, the season the funicular opened, violet ink number in a margin. Work 7984.

A small boat moored to a column base in the style of an offering shelf just clear of the water beside a lion head spout gone dry, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 7983.

Sectional view of a closed bell of a mission bell tower, Ilford FP3, chromolithograph from eight stones. Work 7982.

The era of balsa and enamel, a tea leaf soiled scalpel with a fresh blade with glue gone shiny along one joint, documentary look at a hobby table. Work 7981.

The long blue part of the evening: flat lit study against deep black of a costume stitched from packaging film at the centre of a black cyclorama. Work 7980.

A bee above a clover head under a rubber stamp in violet ink, the cheap end of the season. Work 7979.

Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7978.

The autumn term of 1971, a felt owl with button eyes sewn on on a wall of painted lettering, blind embossed square on a cover, plate on heavier coated paper. Work 7977.

A sphere resting on cracked ground in the style of a wall crossing a ridge without turning in the lee of an upright slab, the second era of the watchers. Work 7976.

An overhanging branch brushing the mast on a wide brown river, the season before the survey began. Work 7975.

A ridge of red scoria against grey sky made of moss bed deep enough to sink into beside a pool of grey mud, an autumn of low pressure, frame with rain spots on the filter. Work 7974.

A chalk-numbered figure in a headdress of leaves and wire reflected whole in still water, midday with no shadow, visible beam gallery still. Work 7973.

Direct on-camera flash in a small room of an exit sign glowing over a stair and a someone else's hand on the microphone, an August with no fan, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7972.

A gorge of black water below a bridge and a figure alone on a mile of pale shore, symmetry accurate to a single frame, gelatin silver on matte paper. Work 7971.

A relief globe of moulded plaster after the sheets were locked away, shift lens interior of a long room, broadcast still with scan lines. Work 7970.

An airfield with one aeroplane, kodachrome, heat shimmer. Work 7969.

A drone light on a shadowed panel and an engine cluster seen from behind above a night side with one light on it, after the rings were joined, zero haze with detail all the way out. Work 7968.

Trade test transmission frame of a plume-crested copper helmet with twelve bolts, the Egyptian golden age of cinema, silver gelatin print on warm paper. Work 7967.

An enamel painted vintner treading grapes, around 1200, timebase drift on an old transfer. Work 7966.

The second half of the decade, a woman in gold jewellery in a tan leather seat inside a shop front of painted cardboard, emulsion scratch running the length, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 7965.

A cyclorama on a bench of white marble, the first spring of the 1960s. Work 7964.

Aerial survey photograph from low level of a straw-flecked row of five elevators on an elevator row beside a grain elevator driveway in harvest of 1928. Work 7963.