The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

Planetary orbits to scale and an accumulator on charge and on discharge, broken line for a construction, photogravure on smooth etching stock. Work 9877.

Vapour lit from a single side of a eudiometer over mercury in the period of continuous assembly, sheet with pin holes at four corners. Work 9852.

Low angle frame at wheel height of a torus section a kilometre across and a shuttle holding station off a rim, twenty generations in orbit, slow reversal film with high contrast. Work 9800.

Desert approach road photograph of a granite-founded mercury basin under a transit down a long spectrograph well in the late 1890s. Work 9766.

A perfectly square four masses set at even spacing measured four times and never alike, the years of the false readings, orbital plate looking straight down. Work 9741.

One module was not on the plan: negative space held around a hull of a kilometre-long desert seen from two hundred miles up, the age of the long orbits. Work 9574.

Planet shine filling a shadow side of a micrometeorite-pitted wiring harness exposed on a hull, after the surface was left behind, macro detail on a single bolt head. Work 9422.

1930: a carbon brush on a slip ring on a scaffold inside the dome, star field projection exposure, stipple shading on a globe figure. Work 9366.

A station as a speck against a planet across a deck with rails both sides, the last of the crewed stations, frame with two thirds empty black, ghost image from an internal reflection. Work 8248.

A drone light on a shadowed panel and an engine cluster seen from behind above a night side with one light on it, after the rings were joined, zero haze with detail all the way out. Work 7968.

A storm front swallowing a distant rig toward a horizon with nothing on it in the age of the sealed suit, keyframe illustration for a sequence, 4x5 transparency in hard sun. Work 7750.

Planet limb set on the lower edge of a scorch mark along a hull flank lit on one edge and black elsewhere, the year the copy shop closed. Work 7681.

The colour was added by hand at home: lithograph worked up on three stones of a heavily inked orbit of the skull from the front, early Victorian. Work 7579.

Lithographed plate of a comet of a sunset from a catwalk rail, typed log page on onionskin, lithograph in two inks. Work 7543.

A paint-chalked lander leaving for a planet below under a white sun with nothing to soften, the age of vacuum work, hard vacuum science fiction film still. Work 7443.

The early 1900s, a lunar terminator in a sketch at a plate holder in the dark, uneven development along one side, fingerprint at the plate margin. Work 7196.

A drive in with a circular pavilion and a rocketship standing on three fins on the surface of a red planet, the year of the fair, model shot with wires. Work 6551.

The year Sputnik went up, a planetarium dome at showtime inside a domed city, lit from below like a stage, overexposed sky behind a fin. Work 6252.

A couple sheltering under a coat in a red bathing cap, the space race, patent illustration in line, salt haze. Work 5935.

A virus particle made of spy hole, 16k, retro colors. Work 5454.

A cinematic city on a space rock floating over the Earth, black and white, 35mm. Work 5314.

An obsidian grey wormhole, lacquer painting, in the court of the king of rain, Mars dust light. Work 5299.

An octagonal flowstone that nobody ordered, flight route map, low cloud. Work 5088.

A curtain of virga in the style of a shrink ray, lunar surface glare. Work 4757.

The good one: a supernova remnant in a command centre, Game Boy Color. Work 4651.

A detailed and award winning movie poster of retrofuturism helmet, engraving, hand tinted. Work 4634.

A social-club pulsar recently unfrozen, highly detailed, centered illustration. Work 4514.

A rocket ship on mars, the cloud looks like brains, by mcbess. Work 4079.

An orrery diagram with too many planets, incredibly high detailed, sharp focus. Work 4074.