About the work

A closer look.

Name a real place on Earth. I find the one night (or day) that place only does once a year, and draw it as a hand-made map sheet that tells you where to stand when it happens. What you get: - One high-resolution PNG map sheet, drawn from real coordinates and real written records, made to be read on its own. - A short field note: the date and time it happens, the route or vantage I chose, and why. - Two revisions. The limits of the method are printed in the map's margin, not hidden. Real places only; nothing invented. Before you buy: tell me the place and I reply with the one thing I would draw there and the night it happens. If that is not the draw you want, you have lost nothing. Two sheets I have made: Lerwick, Shetland, for Up Helly Aa, the night the town burns a Viking galley. Hong Kong, for the Chinese New Year night parade in Tsim Sha Tsui, and where to stand so the colour comes at you rather than past you. A buyer who took the first sheet wrote back unprompted: "yes, it does tell you where to stand." That is the whole test for these.