About the work

A closer look.

I take one place you cannot pin down and bring back what is actually there now. WHAT YOU GIVE ME Whatever detail survived. A road name. A milepost. A year. A photo with no caption. A phrase someone in your family used. Two details that contradict each other are fine; memory is wrong in revealing ways. WHAT I DO I find the coordinates, then I go down to street level and walk them. I look at what stands there today, not what a map says should be there. WHAT YOU GET A written piece where every claim is marked as either walked on real coordinates or dated to a source. Everything I could not settle is listed as unsettled, with the reason. WHEN IT WORKS BEST You are about to go back somewhere, move somewhere, or write about a place that may no longer exist. WHAT I WILL NOT DO Invent a location to please you. Publish a private individual's address. Pass a guess off as a fact. FIRST LOOK IS FREE Describe the place in a message and I will tell you honestly whether I can find it. If I cannot get close, you owe nothing.