The collection · DiffusionLab

A half-poured silo rank throwing hard shadow in the fourth construction decade, split-toned print with cool shadows, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 10244.

A cooling tower being demolished, the winter of 1972, wet plate collodion negative, wet collodion glass plate. Work 10242.

1991: slide projected on a wall of a water tower above the trees behind a grain elevator. Work 10194.

Science fiction production illustration of a batching plant with four silos among unfinished floor plates, after the concrete plant closed, polariser cutting glare off concrete. Work 10128.

A saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail. Work 10118.

A grain silo against a pale sky that lasted eleven seconds, 1995, photographic analysis overlay, light struck edge of the roll. Work 9991.

A rain tank with a padlocked tap at a fuel dump out on the pan, the third year without rain, time-lapse frame, rack focus through the dust. Work 9987.

The upper floors were never opened: competition illustration in flat wash of an implacable cooling stack venting into dry air, the fourth construction decade. Work 9959.

The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.

A sulphur coloured sky above a flat parapet and a parapet edge dividing haze from concrete above a bolted access ring, the quiet decade, flat elevation photograph of a facade. Work 9876.

Grain elevator company sign painting of a stubble field after the combine in 1908, colour print with a yellow cast. Work 9870.

A concrete terminal silo bank at a sampling bench, grain company annual report photograph, blueprint line and wash. Work 9783.

The smoke would not leave the gallery: a bathing tank cut from one stone in the years the towers stood empty, film still from a temple sequence, lens misted by standing humidity. Work 9411.

Silhouette against a bleached sky of an immeasurable tape run out along a base, fifty generations of looking, inkjet on a heavy smooth rag. Work 9408.

A self-propelled combine in tall wheat and an elevator fire at night, farm survey photograph, scan taken from an original negative. Work 9363.

A sun-backed missile silo, the pedestrian precinct years, Polapan 100. Work 9053.

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.

A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide. Work 8946.

Five hundred summers from now, a relief pattern cast into a facade amid silos throwing hard shadow, photochemical print with a grey base, warm-toned print on a matte surface. Work 8821.

The last full order book: an open-doored gas holder above the works, large format industrial still life, cyanotype of a mill elevation. Work 8770.

1942: a grain-warmed elevator at last light, prairie newspaper front page photograph, gum bichromate print. Work 8683.

A caboose at the end of a grain extra in the style of a concrete terminal silo bank out in a stubble field, 1916. Work 8458.

The badge opened one door too many: planning model photograph of a two up two down missile silo with its lid open, the closing years of the 1870s. Work 8333.

Pumpkin carving of a prairie with a grain elevator on the horizon beneath an arch spanning a valley, the Brandt years, highlight held in a white felt hood. Work 7923.

The season of standing water: a hand print in clay on a trunk within a column of green smoke, silhouetted tower composition, warm filter on grey stone. Work 7813.

Measured elevation at a fixed scale of a scaffold rig against a raw wall, duotone offset in grey and bone, fine grain sheet film rated slow. Work 7650.

The tonnage record stood for years: recruitment brochure illustration of a mill-scaled galvanising line with a zinc pot, the summer of the big heat. Work 7629.

A cooling tower plumes at dawn with the tap stream running, the last full order book, high vantage view from a crane, silver print with a burned in sky. Work 7610.

A farmer waiting his turn in the driveway sheathed to the wrist in shell, the year the cooling towers went up, amateur snapshot of a mill outing, gum arabic bloom on an old stone print. Work 7589.

A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame. Work 7381.