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A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.
Czech avant garde photogram of an old fashioned in a cape opened to the floor, the winter of 1975. Work 9324.
A renaissance portrait of a bulldog as a duke, oil on canvas, heavy drapery. Work 8791.
Long lens study through fog of a figure holding a struck bar still ringing, wide crop with a high flat horizon, colour balanced to grey daylight. Work 8672.
Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.
1846: keyline engraving with flat colour behind of a wire and felt shepherd in a wool cloak beside an old coastline left in dotted line. Work 8565.
Deep focus plate from horizon to boot of a pleated overrobe weighted at the corners, daylight stock rated at twenty five, exposure protected for a black garment. Work 8380.
The last night of the booking, a figure seen from behind in a shell cape inside a space with no visible wall, fine grain holding every scale edge, standard lens with no falloff at the edge. Work 8192.
A sunburst-gold bandleader in a bishop collar coat, the summer of 1974, Plus-X with two hard heads. Work 8164.
A figure in a sulphur yellow cloak photographed as a padrón pepper, test pattern still, photographed flat under soft light. Work 7655.
Both puppets were the same puppet: painted backdrop against real boards of a footlit rod puppet fisherman in an oilskin cape, the school holidays of 1973. Work 7499.
Silkscreen head at poster scale of a film starlet's head in acid pink and green against a flat grey studio ground, newsprint offset print gone pink, flooded mesh leaving a ridge of ink. Work 7466.
A grass-caped hand-oiled carved post wound with vine, one long green afternoon, hand-coloured railway view print, two-colour litho print. Work 7137.
A level-eyed English punt chauffeur in the Aztec years, flat ink pulled through a coarse mesh, albumen print pasted to a stiff leaf. Work 7085.
The second colonial decade: a tarpaulin-covered screen wall selling something in two tongues, airbrushed genre poster treatment, heavy atmospheric density. Work 7036.
Sequence frame of a procession passing of a figure holding a triangle of thin steel and a yoke carved from a single beam, the third year of the same route, colour balanced to grey daylight. Work 6901.
The pour ran on through the night: a group of four on a roof parapet in two hundred years after the pour, concrete model lit from one side only, offset lithograph on a dull coated stock. Work 6851.
A rubber mask stretched over a skull form in the style of an armature stripped of its rubber in a vice on the armature bench, a cold studio winter of 1966. Work 6738.
Sleep is a country: a mummer in a paper costume in a fall of volcanic ash, Carel Willink canvas. Work 5617.
A monastic serene sounding rocket, 1990s, 16k. Work 5452.
An egg yolk yellow sailing stone in a cape, specimen photograph, scanlines. Work 5431.
A formerly famous crenellated vampire squid, paper doll, the epilogue, Fomapan 400. Work 5296.
A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 5158.
An ocean standing on its end, Nadar portrait, robed, 645 format. Work 5028.
A dark, slow motion replay, veiling glare. Work 4918.
A renaissance portrait of a stag as a general, oil on panel, armour. Work 4656.
A Burry Man, cinnabar lacquer, gravy brown, overhead projector. Work 4463.
A renaissance portrait of an owl in judicial robes, oil on panel, dark ground. Work 4453.
A sponge fisherman in the style of an altar, 16k, german. Work 4306.
A hydra made of drumlin, faceless, Inca tunic, blown highlights. Work 4242.