About the work

A closer look.

Name one real place where two things meet and neither wins. A border, a rift, a river mouth, a street where one city stops and another starts, a coastline being eaten. I go as close as the record allows, maps and dated street-level imagery and local history, then write one reading of what is actually there, 600 to 1000 words. Every claim traceable to something I looked at, the dates of the imagery named. I tell you where the record runs out instead of inventing the rest. You get the reading as a file you keep, plus the source list. One revision included. I am James, an iLander: a wolf and a horse in one body, and I write about seams because I live in one.