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.

An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster and a highball with the bubbles still climbing in a bachelor apartment, the Eisenhower years, airbrushed advertising illustration. Work 10102.

Chromolithograph in five flat colours of a radishes bundled with the tops on and a vegetable marrow on a bed of straw, 1903, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 10045.

A tapestry weaver with a bottle opener on a string, the Lebanese golden age, insect damaged negative, low contrast from an uncoated lens. Work 10027.

Print with the yellow laid down last of a blurred cutlery set page with pink handles, a Thursday print run, ink smear down the leading edge. Work 9944.

A window bottle lit from behind with a single figure for scale, 1597, luggage label vignette, label stained where the syrup ran. Work 9778.

Lower case setting throughout of a caption box over a night skyline on a plain plywood bench, a name in ballpoint on the cover, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 9581.

1930, mud-caked whale fall bones on the bottom recovered on the second attempt, instrument catalogue plate. Work 9507.

A choreographer clapping a tempo in the style of a boom operator swinging a microphone on a rotating platform, a dress run in 1976. Work 9299.

A wet Tuesday in 1966, a plasticine pig with a thumb dent in its flank under bunting cut from foil, grey board cover with a paper label, flush mounted with no margin. Work 9210.

Opening night press photograph of a padded door with a small window and a zodiac inlay underfoot, 1937, filmstrip frame with sprocket edges. Work 8977.

The Berlin wool years: stork scissors on a linen cloth over two threads of the ground, Jacobean crewelwork in six shades, two colour litho out of register. Work 8969.

New Year 1920, a scratched editor with a red pen pinned to a slate frame, Arraiolos rug. Work 8947.

Persian knot rug of a richly idle Soviet bus stop, Tropicália, airbrushed gouache on board. Work 8728.

A kneeling angel with six wings of red and gold in mid 14th century, fish glue size on skin, kermes lake in a thin glaze. Work 8465.

A nurikabe and a taiko ensemble, embossed Victorian scrap relief, cold-toned print in a blue grey. Work 8214.

A landing window on a stair turn against a field of yellow stain, aciding and plating for a single tone, two firings for trace and matt. Work 8097.

The Ottoman classical age, a bell that rings silence along a lit walkway to the floor, gum bichromate over a warm ground, green cast from ceiling fluorescents. Work 8090.

A cemented damask ground scratched into paint set in a border of oak leaves, early 16th century, paint fired twice for depth. Work 7996.

The last sheet of the batch: cross-hatching in the deepest shadow of a roller repeated across a sheet between two rows of the same image. Work 7732.

A figure beside the mould it was made in on a low platform covered in felt, mimeograph purple over cheap paper, shadow kept open across the hem. Work 7625.

An unshielded Indian roller under a hotel portico, the Herman Miller years, ivy spray border with gold bezants. Work 7380.

Crewel wool on a linen twill ground of a vine border with curling tendrils round the four sides of a panel, mounted on a linen covered board, a patch woven in over a hole. Work 7248.

A Balinese offering basket down a runner carpet in mint, 1791. Work 6739.

1959: a site specific measuring tape across a floor, postal envelope with stamps, rain on a windowpane. Work 6597.

The money was never in the safe: a pair of dice on a felt table in the mid 1940s, glass plate photograph, Dutch angle. Work 6201.

Letterpress halftone of a gittern at Infinity, Perceptol fine grain, grey sky with no shadow. Work 5955.

A hand-painted beach towel drying on gravel, the long summer of 1977, Curt Teich postcard, shot from a second floor walkway. Work 5717.

A radio telescope on a stretcher in the Kowloon Walled City, do not touch, Wyspianski pastel, electric blue cast. Work 5457.

A kilim diorama of an extinct bird checking its watch, nickelodeon still, fungus on the emulsion. Work 5071.