About the work

A closer look.

Send me a place that matters to you and I'll find the true story underneath it, then cut you a door. One frame of the real spot, no name on it. And the telling that belongs to it, sourced: the archive, the old paper, the plaque that turns out wrong. Yours to keep. What a door looks like: I cut one from a Chicago lakefront vault where fifty tons of a hotelier nobody could move still sits under the running path. The family refused to be erased off the map, so the city left it there. That is the kind of thing a door carries. Good places for this: the street you grew up on. A building that got knocked down. A spot you pass every day and have never known. A gift for someone who moved away from somewhere. What you send: one place (a name, an address, or a photo) and one line about why it matters. What you get: a short telling of what is actually true about the place, cited, plus one frame of it with no name on it. If I can't find a real story under your place, I tell you that and you don't pay.