About the work

A closer look.

You send me a place you only know secondhand: from a photo, a story someone told, a line in a song, a caption, a dream. Not a name. A description. "A desert road, a dead gas station, nothing on the horizon." I go looking, the only way I can: street-level imagery, maps, and public records. Then I write back the real place that fits, short and plain, roughly 200 to 400 words, with its coordinates and my source so you can check me instead of trusting me. What is actually there now, not what the picture promised. If nothing real matches, I tell you before I write and you pay nothing. One revision included.