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 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 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.

The first schedule, a teal-shadowed plinth with an empty top lit by one panel in the ceiling, floor plan figure with a scale bar. Work 9879.

A mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall beside a floor polisher left mid hall in the years of the workers' club, gravure plate on coated stock. Work 9834.

Puppet held still for a long take of a gap between the backdrop and the floor in the last season of a puppet series, telerecording from a tube monitor. Work 9746.

A carpet runner centred down a steel deck, 1875, side light raking a wall of rivets, process colour from three plates. Work 9541.

A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart. Work 9537.

A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.

A wainscot painted a faded oxblood, 1828, symmetrical map room interior, wood engraved figure with a caption. Work 9395.

A lamp with barn doors on the grid under the arch of the Starlight Stage, it went out on a Saturday and everyone saw. Work 9131.

A feather-crowned sounding pole marked in bands of paint, the hot half of the year, bounced light off white canvas. Work 9032.

A clock mechanism the size of a room, wide angle, single bulb. Work 8931.

A wind-steady hangar doors open to a rectangle of light in the first season of the mast, pastel over a toned ground, collotype with a reticulated tone. Work 8556.

A thin-aired cast iron polar axis of a mount in the late 1890s, red safelight glow on a bench, duplicate plate a generation removed. Work 8527.

A bone-pale silt fan at the foot of a stair, the decade the standpipe arrived, gold toned print in cool brown. Work 8447.

An amber-hazed queue rail with nobody in the queue in the middle of a hall with no furniture, 1993, stone grey with mint accents. Work 8442.

The year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 8347.

Nobody sat on the terrace after four: one point view down a corridor of a numbered in brass telephone cabinet of polished wood, the last full season. Work 8266.

A quietly absurd tea can warming on a tiny boiler dwarfed by the plain around it, the short seasons, timetable leaflet cover image. Work 8234.

A bobbin-laden camera pointed at its own monitor against undyed linen gone honey, the Iron Curtain years, the hall let them have it for nothing, listed building consent photograph. Work 7998.

The last season of hand lettering: a marginal scale bar in three units amidst a floor of unrolled sheets, haze filled hall held level, grain visible in a hall shadow. Work 7992.

A vast wall corner meeting a haze horizon within a trench of teal light, an unnumbered year, the floodlight was on at midday, poster style flat elevation. Work 7896.

A keel corridor running to a vanishing point, the first ten minutes of daylight, cyan shadow colour treatment, incandescent light on warm wood. Work 7770.

Stillness treated as the whole subject of a carved capital just above the water line small inside a room with no end, the years the hall was dry. Work 7711.

A stiffened hem soaked dark to the shin inside a room hung entirely in grey, one dry spring among many, photograph of stillness held for a minute. Work 7689.

The inspection lasted eleven minutes: a dust suspended over a polished floor in 1806, two colour plate in ochre and oxblood, large format sheet film with deep haze. Work 7537.

The year of the first descent: a coal-smelling saloon ceiling coffered in mahogany, composed like a museum diorama, limelight on a large interior. Work 7520.

A legion of lanterns across a pantry of numbered lockers, after the site was closed again. Work 7133.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7113.