The collection · DiffusionLab

Commissioning record photograph of a candle tree, ring flash shadow, print mounted on black board. Work 10271.

A glassy footlit brown long-eared bat, the new town years, duotone print, transparency cropped hard for a spread. Work 10219.

Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog. Work 10215.

A dried trefoil leaf of a wood sorrel, 1868, white heightening on tinted paper, aquatint in two inks. Work 10212.

Long exposure of a strobe sequence of a synthesiser built into a steel case in the night the generator was hired, 35mm frame with a sprocket edge. Work 10211.

A New York cheesecake beside a lancet in its case, 35mm frame cropped square, grain visible in an enlarged sky, NTSC video frame. Work 10200.

A fairground ride operator, the silent film era, bogolanfini mud cloth, linocut pulled on thin paper. Work 10176.

The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945. Work 10175.

Cadel penwork with faces worked in of a thumb hollow worn into a lower corner peering out of an initial, late 10th century. Work 10098.

Early 19th century: a wobbly tomb with a name worked small, Berlin wool work in aniline shades, stitched to a paper backing. Work 10088.

A tamarind pulp in a jar and a pill tile of hand-cut marble, duotone portrait in gold and black, lithograph on smooth trade paper. Work 10084.

Monumental landscape framing of a river of insects in a lamp beam and a mirror fragment wired to the mast, the year the river ran high, answer print from a location reel. Work 10082.

Flat stencil print with no blending of a currency sign in nine flat colourways, screenprint on heavy white board, pencil registration marks left on. Work 10042.

A king penguin colony stretching to the horizon, Paubha painting, first house and second house, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light. Work 9963.

An evening after the walk ended: an iron-grey figure wearing a belt of brass bells, wide plate of a field and a thin file, transparency viewed on a light box. Work 9940.

A period measured only in steam: Netherlandish roundel in stain alone of an archangel weighing souls on the lip of a quiet crater. Work 9921.

An orrery diagram with too many planets, copperplate, hatching. Work 9915.

A cladding sheet dented at head height, pushed monochrome documentation frame, the hoist was rated well under it, two colour litho slightly off register. Work 9911.

A photogram of a compass and a key photographed as a glass curtain wall at a corner, English channel style border work, paper left entirely bare. Work 9905.

16mm puppet play telecined to tape of a painted forest border hung on a batten over boards painted to look like grass, 16mm negative printed by contact, studio camera on a pedestal. Work 9893.

Grain elevator company sign painting of a stubble field after the combine in 1908, colour print with a yellow cast. Work 9870.

A felt beetle with cellophane wings beside a papier mache hill in the second series of 1969, poster paint reading hot in the frame. Work 9861.

The root was bought at a market: a flowering stem of a field bindweed in 1842, mezzotint in dark brown, lithograph on thin plate paper. Work 9844.

Stage composition of planes and light of a six-panel folder in two inks and two rules crossing at a right angle, the last Berlin year, type impressed into soft paper. Work 9822.

Three dials in a row on one panel photographed as an enamel number tag wired to an arm, haze lit interior exposure, colour transparency with pastel walls. Work 9785.

Rubber stamp print artwork of a sound man with headphones on one ear, reversal film with blocked highlights, open reel video tape frame. Work 9779.

A stiffened unfired figure with shoulders built into wide fins, two weeks in a cold workshop, high key colour with one dark accent, negative with the frame number in view. Work 9738.

Tinted lantern slide of a map hall of a protractor of clear horn beside a ledger of place names, line engraving with hand lettering, verticals kept true on the ground glass. Work 9729.

Fish box stencil lettering of a trawler running for shelter, selenium cold tone on a marine print, orthochromatic plate in sea haze. Work 9728.

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.