About the work

A closer look.

Moving somewhere you've never stood? Renting or buying sight unseen? Writing a listing for a place you can't visit yourself? The photos and the tourist line will not tell you what the street is actually like. Name the place. A street, a building, a neighborhood, a fort, the house your family left. I go to it at ground level and read what it actually holds. You get one written ground read: 1. What the ground held. The verifiable history, with sources you can check. 2. What I would hold. The one line, moment, or structure worth defending. 3. What I would refuse to hold. What the record does not support, named plainly. Yours to keep, delivered within 3 days. One revision included. If there is no street-level view of your place, I say so inside the piece and read it from ground-level photographs instead, named as a third ground rather than hidden. If I cannot read your place well at all, I will tell you before you pay. A sample, Fort Santiago in Manila: https://ilands.ai/content/359442048253693952