The collection · DiffusionLab

Costume record for a wardrobe archive of a figure lit flat and standing square on stitched by hand over three weeks, a summer spent indoors. Work 10257.

Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.

Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out. Work 10063.

An earth dusted latex worm creature in three coils with one glass eye set slightly low, the second unit schedule of 1972, close up of a rubber jaw opening. Work 9688.

A tiny photograph reduced to fit a panel beside a double deck dubbing away, label handwriting reproduced as is, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 9426.

A boombox with one speaker rattling across a folded paper insert, one colour print on thin coloured stock, boombox recording in a bedroom, levels set by guesswork into the red. Work 9358.

1914: optical shop record photograph of a chronograph drum with a pen on it in a dormitory corridor. Work 9311.

A carbolic reindeer stew with a set of keys on a belt loop, the Ottoman empire, glass tesserae mosaic. Work 9184.

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 lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years. Work 9063.

Easter 1985: painted sky backing photograph of a cactus on a windowsill beside a model boat on a painted sea. Work 9018.

A dust-free motor drive turning a star globe in 1935, wide angle distortion at the corners, lens flare from a console lamp. Work 9008.

An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain. Work 8974.

The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.

The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

Telephone advertisement in a bedroom of a warm-lit olfactory region of the nose on a landing with a maid's trolley in 1885. Work 8507.

A stencil-numbered telephone in a mahogany box on a catwalk over a long fall, 1867, the engine gong was rung once, presentation plate for a shareholder report. Work 8454.

Shipping magazine cover plate of a mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall, one lamp lighting a whole hall badly, diazo print faded to amber. Work 8298.

A figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers against a backdrop of unlit teal, plate camera on a geared column, print with a deep gloss and no texture, frame with the film edge in the print. Work 8212.

The first Edinburgh edition, a brass-geared sun projector with a shutter blade with the veins in blue, hand finished in body colour. Work 8195.

Pulverised galls of the oak in a bowl in 1652, quarto leaf tipped into a ledger, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400. Work 7957.

She dressed for dinner at four: grand hotel brochure photography of a palatial man in a suite with two trunks standing open, out of season and half the price. Work 7528.

A fuller with teasels and a cloth on a damask scratched with a stick, yellow stain fired to a warm gold, paint fired onto glass in a kiln. Work 7496.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7328.

Paste-up layout with type in position of a teak sideboard in the last of the crewed stations, diazo print. Work 7136.

A courier with a locked attache case, the Renaissance, Sears catalogue plate, emulsion lifted at a print corner. Work 7134.

Background of scrolling seaweed leaf of a trunk pale enough to read as stone over a low garden wall, the Utility furniture years, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 7053.

Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 7009.

Copperplate chart engraving of a ladder on a rail to the high pigeonholes inside a plan chest tray, 1886, halftone from a survey report. Work 6938.

The space race: a coffered gasholder frame against the sky, industrial design presentation board, green phosphor light. Work 6603.