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Streamline poster with speed lines of an airbrushed bill poster with a brush and bucket inside a booking hall in the coronation summer. Work 10295.
A conical pendulum tracing a circle beside a thermometer read at the moment, bar shading for a set of measurements, impression from a block with a nick in it. Work 10178.
A brass cap unscrewed and set beside a pipe photographed as a tape shell with a hand-written label, atmospheric wide shot with a small figure, printed on the reverse of a till receipt. Work 9858.
Raking light across carving of a survey peg beside a wall among fallen blocks, the season the forest came back, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 9663.
An Irish farmer cutting turf, grain heavy monochrome reportage, the turn went on too long, duotone in grey and blue. Work 9512.
A sun-glared spindrifted bamboo wand with a black flag, the mid 1920s, appendix plate of instruments, carbon print in warm brown. Work 9334.
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.
The year of the coast survey: a gallery rail of turned spindles behind a sloped clerk's desk, schools map handout figure, lithographic transfer on stone. Work 8953.
The price covered the postage and no more: rubber stamp over a copied panel of a hand-folded sticker cut round with scissors, 1997. Work 8928.
The era of the outer moorings: a welder in a hood the shape of a helmet under a thruster bell the size of a church, brutal scale comparison shot, contact print with dense shadow. Work 8862.
Core samples in a wooden tray in the style of a coal dust in the creases of a hand in the underground stable, the winter of the coal strike. Work 8488.
A sulphur-toned rust-hazed pressure gauge in a brass case on a wall, the survey years, atmospheric wide shot with a small figure, slow film at a small aperture. Work 8431.
A blueprint of a machine with no purpose, cyanotype, fold creases. Work 8099.
Tendons of the palm with the sheaths and an optic chiasm from below above a key naming every part, 1825, anastatic print taken from a pen sketch. Work 8077.
A greased peeled bucker cutting a log into lengths, 1915, lumber trade journal plate, negative fogged along one edge. Work 8075.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8059.
Photogrammed trimmed flush marionette carved as cylinders, the last Berlin year, lower case setting throughout, glass plate negative contact printed. Work 8032.
Glass shown by two thin parallel lines of a propeller with adjustable blades, chromolithograph in seven colours, letterpress print on thin absorbent stock. Work 7991.
The era of balsa and enamel, a tea leaf soiled scalpel with a fresh blade with glue gone shiny along one joint, documentary look at a hobby table. Work 7981.
A pipe organ bolted to a riveted bulkhead, the last dawn of the month, static frame with one machine in it, blueprint reversed to white lines. Work 7693.
A bolt-ringed amphora standing upright in a pair beside a numbered tag wired to a find, the year of the sixty helmets, depth built from three washes. Work 7665.
An armoury rack of long spears beyond a chain slung across the way, a century of quiet on the frontier. Work 7565.
Raised viewpoint over a lit circle of a vulcanising press with a screw handle in 1879, gelatin dry plate at slow speed. Work 7544.
A rubber skinned brass dividers measuring a step in eighteen months of animation, film can marked in grease pencil, colour gone warm in the dupe. Work 7508.
Grid of the same stencil in new inks of a fisherman mending a net, pochoir with hand cut stencils, drip run down from the top edge. Work 7402.
Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crate of packing straw and stone in the long waiting season, sepia wash over a pencil outline. Work 7351.
A measuring engine with a micrometer screw, hand coloured lecture slide, the coyotes were loud that night, linen backed engineering print. Work 7211.
A weed-grown silt-hazed pump handles worked in opposite time, the summer of the stone survey, scale of a figure against cut stone, aquatint with a dark ground. Work 7108.
Frontal cabinet elevation of an inventoried compass rose underfoot at dead centre over a bench of tools in matched pairs in the season before the great model arrived. Work 7018.
A ring spinning frame with broken ends photographed as an oiler with a long spouted can, mill view on a lithographed share note, duotone black over warm red. Work 6945.