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The reconstruction years, a quarter circle swung from a corner inside a die-cut circle, north light through a clerestory, type impressed into soft paper. Work 10265.
Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.
A well of dark air in bare rock beside a sailmaker's bench in the second survey era, vanishing point held on a straight edge, transparency on a light box. Work 10180.
Glass gilding panel of a damp smelling post war family saloon, the last summer of the 1980s, release print timed dark. Work 10119.
The polish took longer than the winding: a dome interior painted a dusty pink in the year of the second inventory, long exposure of an empty hall, line block with hand lettered keys. Work 10071.
Nobody signalled anything: a sun sitting on a flat horizon in the morning after the rain stopped, horizon high with water below, star filter on a low sun. Work 10047.
Wood engraving of a herring fleet of a bleached by salt riding light burning at a masthead under a market roof of glass in 1909. Work 10011.
A dinner gong in the style of a boatyard full of half built hulls before the doors were unbolted, the Danish modern years. Work 9839.
Copperplate figure of an armillary of a blower duct under a dome floor, sheet film interior exposure, points of light slightly out of round. Work 9837.
A crocketed gable above a saint in the hall of a red brick villa, the light is wrong after noon. Work 9829.
A landscape where the figure reads as a mark made of ridge of red scoria against grey sky under a sky of flat grey cloud, the third winter of the survey, polarised sky over black rock. Work 9815.
Courtyard sunk two floors into rock on a roof deck with no railing, monochrome with a cold concrete grey, exposure set to hold the shutter marks. Work 9749.
A sodium-lit sodium lamp left on above the stage across a turbine hall floor, the night after the roof let in rain, deadpan documentary portrait. Work 9742.
The closing stretch of the crossing: a flat-coloured figure crossing a plane of glowing violet, saturated single-hue lighting scheme, matched optical pass over a gradient. Work 9733.
The colour arrived before the sound: film still of a smoke sequence of a shell-hung smoke crossing a shaft of sunlight, the closing 1960s. Work 9708.
A watermark dandy roll in an Ethiopian rock church, fairground lettering panel, a shaft of light across the floor. Work 9701.
Raking light across carving of a survey peg beside a wall among fallen blocks, the season the forest came back, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 9663.
A covered hopper car under a loading spout photographed as a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit, lithographed plate of a comet, acetate negative with vinegar warp. Work 9626.
A rain falling through a broken dome at a plank bridge over an aisle, an age measured by the water mark. Work 9592.
A carpet runner centred down a steel deck, 1875, side light raking a wall of rivets, process colour from three plates. Work 9541.
A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.
Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.
Hallucinatory jungle treatment of a canopy underside lit by a flare in a haze of stone dust, the short tropical dusk. Work 9410.
A wainscot painted a faded oxblood, 1828, symmetrical map room interior, wood engraved figure with a caption. Work 9395.
The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 9157.
1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9143.
Dystopian 1980s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9139.
A pole-wrapped stapled-over plywood hoarding with a torn poster, the year of the tear-off strip, peeling paper rendered in hard shadow, black ink on canary poster paper. Work 9132.
A lamp with barn doors on the grid under the arch of the Starlight Stage, it went out on a Saturday and everyone saw. Work 9131.
It was centred by measuring from both walls: a crank turned by a gloved hand in the year the gallery was added, tinted lantern slide of an interior, two colour litho in mint and ochre. Work 9111.