The collection · DiffusionLab

The first half of the century: a sleeve-protected labyrinth on a cathedral floor, pièce montée, airbrushed retouch. Work 10203.

Sparks as short radiating strokes of a molecular model of spheres and rods in the year before the electron was named, plate in a portfolio tied with tape. Work 10195.

A railway poster in one typeface in the style of a pictogram set of six figures in a stand of white partitions, 1928. Work 10052.

An over the moon waveguide in the summer of 1948, uneven pull leaving a pale band, pushed to EI 3200. Work 10036.

Hard-edged composition of five shapes of a vermilion-grounded fist closed around a spanner through a circle cut in paper in the years of the new typography. Work 9993.

Deadpan portrait of an impossible surface of a figure in a yoke of anodised blue rings on a floor of polished black stone, the week the shells arrived, negative with the frame number visible. Work 9947.

Planetary orbits to scale and an accumulator on charge and on discharge, broken line for a construction, photogravure on smooth etching stock. Work 9877.

The last years of the copperplate: a dissected villi of the small intestine magnified, engraving finished with a roulette, wood engraving printed with letterpress. Work 9850.

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.

Desert approach road photograph of a granite-founded mercury basin under a transit down a long spectrograph well in the late 1890s. Work 9766.

A town plan with the streets named on a proof pull before the names went on in 1745, print on paper with a crown watermark. Work 9748.

Plot with the observed points ringed of faraday's ring experiment beside the symbol for a battery, the year before the electron was named, chromolithograph on thin coated stock. Work 9585.

Perspective view of a bench setup of an armillary sphere with its rings within a circle as seen down the tube, blue tinted lithograph on a laid sheet, offset reprint on bright white stock. Work 9514.

The Basel school years: diagram as the whole composition of a record sleeve of concentric rings on a table of pale linoleum. Work 9456.

A barelegged map turtle beside an obsidian, the winter of 1970, punto in aria lace. Work 9417.

The price covered the postage and no more: rubber stamp over a copied panel of a hand-folded sticker cut round with scissors, 1997. Work 8928.

Zero haze with detail all the way out of a torus section a kilometre across over a continent gone to dust, lith print with a crushed shadow, letterpress plate on antique laid. Work 8906.

Two colour paper under one colour ink of a cross section of paper an inch thick in the age of the standing masses, heliogravure on a soft rag. Work 8895.

A pie chart in three tints in the upper left of the sheet, the Weimar years. Work 8856.

The Schmidt years: a winceyette protractor set over a plan, cave survey photograph, salt haze across the image. Work 8787.

A sun the width of the whole frame, a day that started orange, two band colour composition, front element hazed by salt air. Work 8232.

A polarisation by a pair of nicol prisms made of phosphor streak trailing behind a boat within the field of a telescope eyepiece, 1848, glass positive in a wooden carrier. Work 8167.

Luggage label illustration style of a clerk pair matched like a mirror at the centre of a numbered yard, watercolour wash over ruled ink, warm ochre grade on colour stock. Work 8154.

A glove in six clashing colourways across a proof with a cell missing in the first edition of fifty, staple holes at the top corner. Work 7823.

A length of rope going nowhere on rock cracked in a wide circle, inkjet on a heavy smooth rag, drum scan with the dust left in, carbon print in a single earth pigment. Work 7797.

The last sheet of the batch: cross-hatching in the deepest shadow of a roller repeated across a sheet between two rows of the same image. Work 7732.

Multiple exposure of a precession of a pinhole plate of one constellation, lantern slide in a wooden frame, time exposure with the shutter held open. Work 7483.

A hardboard mounted brass meridian ring engraved in degrees beside a seam where two halves of a body met, the year colour television arrived, dome projection photograph. Work 7442.

The tint plate slipped in printing: a conical pendulum tracing a circle in the term after the new syllabus, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, photogravure on smooth etching stock. Work 7363.

Flash lit dome interior of a level bubble read with a lens and a sunspot sketch on a projection sheet, 1922, reseau lines printed through. Work 7341.