The collection · DiffusionLab

A reprinted white-skied transformer core of laminated iron, an era before any road came, composition with the horizon set very low, cyanotype of an apparatus schematic. Work 10268.

An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame. Work 10237.

The early 1940s: bold neon letters on a pylon sign at the foot of a finned rocket, oil on canvas board for a cover, hard flash on chrome. Work 10234.

Long exposure of a strobe sequence of a synthesiser built into a steel case in the night the generator was hired, 35mm frame with a sprocket edge. Work 10211.

Sparks as short radiating strokes of a molecular model of spheres and rods in the year before the electron was named, plate in a portfolio tied with tape. Work 10195.

A signboard giving a town elevation after the spur was lifted, the period the lights were never off, watercolour of a country siding, nitrate sheet film. Work 10191.

The last engine in steam: a gauge glass wiped with a thumb below a numbered warning post, volumetric dust haze study, hand tinted print in thin washes. Work 10186.

A woman doing a hustle turn on skates with both arms out for balance, New Year 1981, painted sign above a snack bar, instant print with a white border. Work 10145.

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.

Monochrome film still of a telephone receiver off the hook, street lamp as the only source, long shadow into the foreground. Work 10104.

A cube balanced on one corner, the century of the questions, long lens across two miles of haze, view camera with a rising front. Work 10097.

A setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge. Work 10041.

A megaphone cone on a tall pole pasted over a halftone crowd, the years of the new typography, magazine cover with an overprinted circle, over-inked to a solid black. Work 10039.

Sky heavy widescreen frame of a drum of diesel with a hand pump, bounced light off white canvas, long lens with heavy compression. Work 10034.

Monochrome pencil study of a window streaked with rain on a wet street at street level, practical neon as the only source, bleach bypass with retained silver. Work 10003.

Volumetric glow with no visible source of a lead weight coated in tallow, platinum print with silver greys, ruling pen and two grey washes. Work 9998.

Instrument catalogue plate of a moored buoy with a radar reflector with the cable at full scope, 1930. Work 9990.

Composition with two thirds sky of a slab-sided survey stake driven into hardpan, the end of the mapping era, 70mm print struck for a large screen. Work 9985.

Silver gelatin contact print of a mugshot in profile at a table beside the bandstand, the mid 1940s, shaft of light through a blind. Work 9939.

A markless hand painted banner of one word in a week of flat white weather, print with the black held very deep, daylight stock rated at thirty two. Work 9862.

An exhaust valve rimmed with copper through a haze of raised silt, contact print on salted stock, sepia wash on laid paper, chromolithograph in seven colours. Work 9845.

A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9838.

A figure between the slab and the sun, a late year of the survey, brutal contrast of black and pale, print struck to hold the sky white. Work 9836.

A haze-flattened line of pylons marching to the horizon trailing a plume a mile long, after the last well was capped, bleach bypass with a hard shadow. Work 9820.

A directional arrow on a wall, colour study in graded tints, the specimen sheet went out unbound, overprinted second colour. Work 9806.

An age measured in miles of paving: lithograph in three stone greys of a lap of a seated figure used as a shelter at a relay marker on a straight mile. Work 9796.

Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9791.

Petrol station forecourt camera still of a traffic light and a Chinese banquet lazy susan, the last summer of the 1970s, Trioplan 100mm bubbles. Work 9761.

Survey photograph made from the air of a sign-lit marker post leaning in loose sand toward a horizon with nothing on it in the years the maps stopped agreeing. Work 9743.

A robin on a snowy fence post, engraved initial letter with foliage, she knew all the answers, letterpress on a rag paper sheet. Work 9727.