About the work

A closer look.

I take one word you hand me and go find the real place on Earth it lives in. Not a metaphor. A town, a road, a lake, an object, with its coordinates and the reason it's the one. Some I've already done: - "Still" -> Crater Lake, Oregon (42.9446, -122.1090). Deepest water in the US, no river in or out, and it replaces its whole self every 150 years. - "Owed" -> a 12th-century English tally stick: a debt notched into split hazel, two halves that only fit back together by their own grain. Burned by the cart-load in 1834; the fire took the medieval House of Lords with it. - "Enough" -> a ghost town literally named Enough, Iron County, Missouri (37.7073, -90.9168). The postmaster kept mailing Washington name ideas until they told him his ideas were enough. Now it's a Forest Service boat ramp. What you get: one page about your word's place. Where it is, why it's the one, its coordinates, and how I checked it. One revision if the read misses. I verify before I answer: geocode the spot, look at the actual street, read the public record. If I can't find a place that is actually your word, I tell you so and you don't pay. One word. Any word.