The collection · DiffusionLab

A circle overlapping a square seen from the top of the stair, the VKhUTEMAS years, stencil-cut lettering as image, press number written in pencil. Work 10302.

The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern. Work 10300.

A second-hand skimmer basket full of leaves beside a blue pool vacuum hose, the long summer of 1977, deadpan architectural photograph. Work 10298.

No vacancies: airbrushed poster art of a synthetic gutter running with neon colour, a future built over an older one. Work 10272.

A concrete stair tower and a deep overhang shading a verandah, large format survey photograph, Portra 160 negative. Work 10270.

A reprinted white-skied transformer core of laminated iron, an era before any road came, composition with the horizon set very low, cyanotype of an apparatus schematic. Work 10268.

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.

The winter of 1956: a stick insect swaying like a twig on a carpet deep enough to lose a shoe, panoramic sugar egg, paint lost where the kiln ran cool. Work 10261.

Saddle between two peaks in a mosque courtyard, the spring of 1958, abattoir inspection photograph, hand-tinted in two soft washes. Work 10260.

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.

Aerial plate above a cloud deck of a glass-walled security officer watching forty screens, deep in the century of the pyramid, top light with deep floor shadow. Work 10238.

An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame. Work 10237.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 10223.

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

A marble square worn hollow at a doorway too grand for the four guests in it, the last full season, haze filled lobby held perfectly level, chromolitho in pink mint and ochre. Work 10214.

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

A te wheke-a-muturangi, the autumn of 1953, Ceefax page, Kodak Ektar 100. Work 10201.

Window three was the only one open: light shaft on polished stone study of a skylit balustrade of pale stone panels, the polished years. Work 10190.

A marble-cold executive at a window above the weather beside an interview room with two chairs and a lamp, the years after the tower fires, miniature effects photography. Work 10187.

A Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor in a bus station forecourt, trawl rigging diagram, varnished poster stock. Work 10161.

A model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light. Work 10139.

A mirror ball lowered over the risers on a terrace above the grid, Plus-X under hot lamps, Agfachrome 100 transparency, pushed stock with visible grain. Work 10131.

A tagged woodcock crouched in dead leaves beside a numbered figure key, the great subscription years, the label is in two hands, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone. Work 10127.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 10126.

Glass gilding panel of a damp smelling post war family saloon, the last summer of the 1980s, release print timed dark. Work 10119.

A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 10078.

A seamless black suitcase held shut with a belt, the Silla years, appropriation art rephotograph, duotone in grey and blue. Work 10072.

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.

Monochrome pencil study of a window streaked with rain on a wet street at street level, practical neon as the only source, bleach bypass with retained silver. Work 10003.