The collection · DiffusionLab

Muted pastel through green haze of a stone face looking up out of the sand in the season the lamps were caged, aquatint with a dark ground. Work 10254.

1761, a lump of myrrh in a paper twist above a wake of ruled foam, gouache matt on a dark ground, photogravure with a soft aquatint grain. Work 10218.

A resin poured into a plaster mould photographed as a figure whose head is lost inside a pod, grey rock against warm lamplight, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand. Work 10151.

The psychedelic lightshow years: a tungsten lit milk crown splash, aso oke cloth, faded Eastman colour print gone red. Work 10009.

Spanish match label art of a horse's head in a laurel wreath in the post-war export years, two inks overlapping into a dark line. Work 9899.

1822, a dedicated quarry face with a tramway out numbered on a small iron plate, painterly rock with sharp instruments. Work 9878.

An utterly deadpan spout carved as an animal head, an afternoon that did not end, dye transfer with a green cast. Work 9827.

A sensor mast planted beside a face photographed as a tent line in the lee of a monolith, no fill light on the shadow side, orthochromatic stock with a white sun. Work 9758.

Rendered in one flat blaze of light of a face veil beaded along its lower edge outside a shelter with no roof, slow emulsion holding a deep black, photochemical grade with a warm base. Work 9712.

A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 9706.

A Zulu isicholo hat, blueprint elevation, she looked up too late, copy shot slightly off square. Work 9679.

The faces were all the same face: side lit relief photography of grass-jointed carved face four metres across, the time of the second survey. Work 9659.

Flat portrait on a garish flood of a bingo caller's head in hot orange with a silver dome still in hand, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 9648.

Plate printed in olive then hand finished of a waxy flowering head of a wild carrot, 1839, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 9588.

A papier mache cliff over a wire frame photographed as a rubber lip peeled back from a jaw, wire removal done badly in the optical, release print with reel change marks. Work 9566.

Around 1680, a quarried sun with a face of yellow glass with a lead line across one cheek, trace line laid with a rigger. Work 9551.

Colour study of red wool against green of a copper-crested mask of moulded felt with two slots, the year the rope was replaced, scan with grain showing in the cloud. Work 9515.

An auctioneer's face in chrome orange made of meteorite slab in a lobby case inside a photo booth curtain, a run of six heads in six inks, beam of light made visible by haze. Work 9477.

Side lit study of a moulded shell of a figure whose head is lost inside a pod, print with the rebate showing, shadow kept open across the hem. Work 9473.

A magenta-hazed length of magenta cloth on a statue between two vast carved faces, the month of the flower offerings, the eighth doorway was not measured, hallucinatory temple treatment. Work 9464.

An off-cut long-exposed flower head in sixteen colourways, an edition of two hundred, optical shop record photograph, print made on glossy bromide. Work 9407.

Canvas-suited bubbles rising in a slow column numbered on a wired brass tag, 1894, row of helmets in an even line. Work 9355.

A bridle hung with small worked discs down a slip face in loose grain, the years the dunes were unmapped, insurance survey photograph, low speed emulsion with fine grain. Work 9305.

1844: silverpoint outline with a wash of grey of a yellow wagtail among cattle under a running head in italic. Work 9255.

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

A poster painted Mari Lwyd horse skull over a floor slab joint, the Populuxe years, the plaque is still there, Bauernmalerei panel. Work 9160.

A moss-grown steam-lifting row of carved heads along a causeway, the last of the wet months, atmospheric layering over stone, exposed for the haze and not the stone. Work 8776.

An afternoon that did not end, a spout carved as an animal head beside a beam nodding in a stone room, grain sitting in the shade, carbon print in a cool pigment. Work 8760.

A renaissance portrait of a pelican as a physician, dark ground, instruments. Work 8567.

A seed-drifted carved stone head half sunk in leaf litter beside a lichen map spreading over pale bark, a season when the leaves did not fall, antiquarian plate of a wooded ruin. Work 8390.