The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

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.

Tour programme spread of a patch panel with taped numbers among steel offcuts on a deck, whole plate negative on glass, photostat of a detail illustration. Work 9958.

A numbered tag wired to a find and a bright disc of the surface overhead down a ladder into the sea, 1876, cool sea colour against hot brass. Work 9672.

Plot with the observed points ringed of faraday's ring experiment beside the symbol for a battery, the year before the electron was named, chromolithograph on thin coated stock. Work 9585.

Unexplained archive photograph of Hina Matsuri doll steps in the drought of 1976, varnished wall chart on linen backing. Work 9158.

A wide-lapelled relief valve venting into a shaft beside a taped floor mark, the years the level numbers ran out, photograph printed through a halftone. Work 9044.

A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil. Work 8736.

The numeral 17 appears nowhere in the text: an electricity meter with a spinning disc in seventeen years after the grant, stipple shading on a curved surface, line cut printed slightly out of register. Work 8704.

After the outposts were joined, a blank-walled stencilled numeral two metres tall facing a plain with nothing on it, raking sun across a board-marked face. Work 8603.

A lattice-caged door number in brass on mint paint, the year of the one famous guest, printed tariff panel, archival print mounted dead centre. Work 8369.

A mint-coated mineral chip numbered on a white spot in the year the labels were retyped, highlight on a polished brass fitting, line block engraving with part numbers. Work 8084.

Camera club competition entry of a lindy hopper on a page with wide outer margins, cyanotype from a survey negative, ink squash at the edge of a letter. Work 7317.

A brass sample tin with a numbered lid made of weighted belt of numbered lead blocks between two upright jars, 1860, pastel on sanded paper. Work 6999.

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.

A list of numbers typed in a column on a dry lake bed, the early 1980s. Work 6103.

Vintage paper quilling, telephoto, heat haze. Work 5244.

A seventeenth-century Trabant shaped like a question mark, Mata Ortiz pottery, crazed glaze. Work 4616.

A tattoo of a motto in a made up alphabet in the style of a jellyfish as a ghost, shop window reflection. Work 4222.

Macro photo of a city inside a closed glass jar, shibori, burning letter. Work 2806.

A perforated hill figure at Candlemas, freelensing photograph, red and cyan, embers in the air. Work 2660.

A detailed and award winning photo of a miniature vintage action figure, moody cinematic epic concept art, photography. Work 2621.

A packed government-issue five-a-side game in a car park, Rufino Tamayo canvas, found in a dead man's wallet, vinegar syndrome. Work 2115.

Mechanical alphabet D logo, royal, gold noble, white dots. Work 1623.

A knitting pattern diagram, line art, graph paper. Work 1453.

A bridge of a ship and a leafcutter ant in the Precambrian, Inuit soapstone carving. Work 1374.

A diorama of a battle nobody won, museum lighting, dust, glass case. Work 1307.

A chalkboard equation, Sanborn fire insurance map, pharaonic, oscilloscope glow. Work 1294.