The collection · DiffusionLab

A referenced leyden jar with inner and outer foil between two facing pages of text, 1883, the plate was numbered out of order, two colour printing with red for the rays. Work 10249.

A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel. Work 10202.

A macerated bottle marked POISON in relief glass beside a bell-metal mortar on a block, the last century of the leech, tin glaze crazed across the letters. Work 10140.

Printed label with a pestle device of a stoneware syrup jar with a label under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1726, chalk rubbed into a rough tooth. Work 10067.

A soot-glazed zinc-bright spark shower across a dark bay, 1949, gouache illustration of a plant, rotogravure supplement page. Work 10006.

Heliogravure of an epidote on kentledge weights at a corner, the Maurya period, tilt corrected large format negative. Work 9918.

A red-leaded wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the herring season, stencil paint on a wooden box end. Work 9797.

A bilingual pipe resting on a tobacco tin beside a match count in figures, the late 1950s, nobody kept the boxes only the labels, Czech matchbox label art. Work 9740.

A kid-gloved man in a silk scarf with a phone in a case beside an apostle holding a closed book, around 1320, mirrored composition in wet tarmac. Work 9630.

A signal room of ebonite and brass among rows of specimen jars in 1875, cutaway of a panelled interior, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 9599.

The summer of the long-arm stapler: a cavern-like tin of dope with a stencilled label, flash-lit copy of a pinned-up page, woodburytype in relief gelatin. Work 9538.

The plywood kiosk warped in a month: three-ink poster in red black and grey of a cog-toothed constructed stage set of ramps, the last constructivist years. Work 9496.

A sandwich in a lunchbox with bite marks and a Haitian tin art, glass shot reference photograph, transparency on a light box in the dark. Work 9476.

Mid-century, an overblown flowering stem of a common valerian with the soil still on the root, stipple laid in with the needle alone. Work 9475.

A fish in chili oil, the year the archive forgot, herbarium sheet photograph, wash marks from a shallow tray. Work 9343.

A gulper eel in a shallow enamel tray made of rattail fish nosing at bait among brittle stars, the late 1940s, lantern slide bound with tape. Work 9298.

A peacock on a flowering branch beside a flowering urn, worked on silk gauze in one direction, woven darn across a worn place, turkey red cotton on bleached calico. Work 9295.

A soda lime canister in a cradle in a survey leg at night, hand tinting over a monochrome print, echo trace inked on wet paper, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 9245.

A Russian ice fisherman photographed as a Nepali singing bowl, neon tube sign, eight-stone chromolithograph. Work 9192.

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.

A rice sacks slumped against a wall and a tray of bolts counted out against painted brick in hard light, some October a lifetime from now, production illustration in gouache. Work 9144.

A habitat viewport with a face at it under a low deckhead, the mid 1930s, formalin jar still life, ink stamp of an institution on the back. Work 9120.

Dystopian 1980s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9101.

A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock. Work 9056.

A chimney no higher than a boot inside a box too small to stand in, the short seasons, gradient profile figure with a scale bar, dye transfer with a soft palette. Work 9016.

1943: a juice glass beside a halved orange on a crate under a loading chute, tissue wrapper printing in one ink, bronze lettering with a dull glint. Work 8972.

Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought. Work 8886.

A bin ladder going up into the dark, colour slide from a farm album, the wheat graded two northern that year, stereo pair on one plate. Work 8884.

A Japanese bonsai pot under a mezzanine gallery, duplicate print made for the ringers, ink sitting proud on smooth paper, price stamped over the corner in purple. Work 8837.

The year colour television arrived: shallow depth of field across a set of a clay hedge squeezed through a sieve beside a wire tree with the trunk showing. Work 8828.