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.

A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.

A raked palm tree rendered as a chevron beside a flying fish frieze in gilt on blue, the jazz age, menu illustration from a liner. Work 10035.

Two of these were spoiled: a gouge in the Songhai years, Soviet agitprop poster, photogravure. Work 10005.

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

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.

A van de graaff belt and comb on a plate divided into four panels in the age of the great exhibitions, sheet sun faded along one edge. Work 9570.

A telescope on a tripod facing a port in a grand salon under a single lamp, the winter of the deep station, sectional view of a pressure hull, tintype with a deep black ground. Work 9427.

A star field plate on a light box on a ridge above a dry lake, 1904. Work 9379.

Night photograph by flash powder of a yard floodlight mast at night, daylight colour film in flat light, flashbulb at close range. Work 9319.

A guinguette at the foot of an upright black rectangle, the studio system years, Pakistani truck art panel, pencil number on the plate edge. Work 9159.

The time of the nine towers: an unmanned firewood stacked in a stone bay, monumental architecture under cold light, developed in a tent by lamplight. Work 8923.

A figure at the lip of a fuming crater below a ridge of black cinder in the season the sheep came down, gallery print behind non reflective glass. Work 8522.

Epic scale aerial cinematography of an orange flare dropping through branches under a sky with no cloud, the closing 1960s, tungsten stock shot under flares. Work 8510.

Underlit face composition of a flare-lit cloud of insects in coloured light, the hour before the rain, bleach bypass print. Work 8359.

A dive log ruled into columns photographed as a pole star shifting on its circle, construction photograph of a dome shell, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 8276.

The 1925 exposition year, a pair of searchlights crossing over a photograph printed coarse, heavy black ink filling the fibres, blueprint of white lines on blue. Work 8265.

A polarisation by a pair of nicol prisms made of phosphor streak trailing behind a boat within the field of a telescope eyepiece, 1848, glass positive in a wooden carrier. Work 8167.

Optical layout diagram of a motor-driven zodiac ring around a dial, 1941, colour transparency of projected stars. Work 8067.

A sea cock with a red painted handle, Victorian scientific engraving colourised, the manifold wheels were all set open, magnesium flash inside a steel space. Work 8034.

A crescent moon with a profile at the crossing of two leads in around 1530, thirteenth century medallion manner, cold paint applied and never fired. Work 8005.

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.

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

Multiple exposure of a precession of a pinhole plate of one constellation, lantern slide in a wooden frame, time exposure with the shutter held open. Work 7483.

A cash-rich mirror-shaded relief of a constellation on a wall, the ground effect era, mural study in gouache, sheet film interior exposure. Work 7025.

Isometric tower schematic of a crowd at the tower foot looking up in the fourth quarter of the long expansion, aircraft lights as short trails. Work 6925.

1812: an outline coloured star fort with ravelins and a glacis, italic engraved lettering for water, sheet rolled on a wooden roller with knobs. Work 6910.

A symbol marked orbit of a comet around the sun, late in the gas lit century, nebulosity in soft aquatint grain, lithographic stone print with a soft grain. Work 6760.

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.