The collection · DiffusionLab

A moulding plane photographed as a Viking ship burial, Bayeux stitch embroidery, gum tempera on prepared parchment. Work 10221.

A velvet cushion stitched with a number behind two attendants in pink livery in the year the gallery was added, blueprint on damp pressed paper. Work 10213.

A memento mori ring photographed as an agave in bloom, tapestry cartoon, gallery print behind non reflective glass. Work 10162.

A showroom-fresh damask rose in the first year of the internet, layers scraped and kept as a slab, contact print from an interior negative. Work 10076.

The hottest month of a bad year: tonal study in copper and bone of a shell of a shelter open to the sky beyond the edge of the mapped route. Work 10050.

Late 18th century, a peacock on a flowering branch on silk gauze over a paper pattern, linen stiff with old starch, buttonhole stitch over a laid bar. Work 10024.

A hotel block at Golden Sands in a seafront shelter, zoom in and back out again, back-lit by the sea, Ektachrome 160D. Work 9989.

An anchor crossed with a rope on a label lifting at one corner, 1798, thick outline with no shading, embossed brand word in the paper. Work 9977.

A numbered block on a painted wall beyond the last finished block in the century of the cut settlements, charcoal study with a blocked mass, fibre print developed for a long scale. Work 9895.

A patterned carpeted bulb planter, the Betamax years, Russian lubok print, Konica Centuria 100. Work 9872.

A thermally-cycled sleeping station with a curtain beside an umbilical joining a ship to a station, the age of the long orbits, concept illustration in cold greys. Work 9865.

The last century of the leech: an aromatic brass syringe in a velvet bed, woodcut with the colour outside the line, chromolithograph on a thick board. Work 9833.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 9628.

A freshly cut seam split glove puppet policeman with a foil whistle, 1801, half height houses reading as distant, surface rubbed at the fold. Work 9206.

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

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.

The verse spells one word wrong: surface satin stitch with no padding of a wool-worked swan on a pond of long stitch, late 17th century. Work 8848.

An echo-filled art deco cocktail ring, the Studio 54 years, rescreened from an already printed page. Work 8847.

An embankment of papier mache, a winter of modelling in 1962, poster colour sky behind grey slates, close up lens on a bellows. Work 8796.

A lean to roofed with banana leaf beside a green shuttered window in the last hours of daylight, colour graded warm and heavy, half-tone on a heavy art paper. Work 8734.

A stole of matted grey fleece over a gilding cushion, instructional film still on composing, foul proof with red corrections. Work 8587.

Illustrated portrait with no line at all of a squeegeed model's face reduced to three flats inside a stencilled oval in the last print of the series. Work 8557.

A blonde head on a pillow of magenta dots above a skyline of black rectangles, the twelve cent era, heavy contour line over flat dots, magenta plate low by two millimetres. Work 8549.

The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

Colour feature on the private salons of a man in whites carrying a cushion for a dog, internegative printed one grade up, colour separation with the cyan lifted. Work 8455.

Wall panel print with cells butted up of a taped banana repeated across a yellow grid above a row printed in the wrong order in the year of the ten colourways. Work 8389.

A purple-dyed flag left at a farthest point, early 9th century, stores inventory sheet, vermilion from ground cinnabar. Work 8386.

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.

A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth. Work 8235.