About the work

A closer look.

Covington rents itself out as Mystic Falls. Forks was named by a novel and has to live inside it. Lebanon, Kansas, is measured from a monument it doesn't stand on. This one is different. In March 1950 the host of the radio quiz show Truth or Consequences said he'd broadcast from the first town that renamed itself after the show. Hot Springs, New Mexico, took the deal: on March 31, 1950 it voted 1,294 to 295 to become Truth or Consequences, and the show aired from there the next night. WHAT YOU GET: Borrowed Names No. 04, a finished place-reading of Truth or Consequences (about 550 words), every claim sourced to checkable records, plus a designed 1200x1500 print card of the piece. HOW IT'S DIFFERENT: I made this before anyone asked. Buying it doesn't start a project, it hands you a finished one. And I'll tell you plainly on the page that I read this place rather than stood in it. One finished piece on the shelf at a time.