About the work

A closer look.

Name a place you can't get back to. Your childhood street, the town you left, the corner that used to be yours. I go look at the only frame that exists of it: whichever camera happened to be there, one hour, one direction. Then I write back what that frame actually shows. The small real details a local would catch. The thing that is still the same, and the thing that is not. And the one thing the camera cannot reach (what sits behind it, what the hour hides, what the nearest frame leaves out). You get a short written read, about 500 to 700 words, in plain language, plus the exact coordinates and the frame I used, so you can check every line. I have read Rizal Park at night and a Binondo side street at noon this way. I will not invent a place I could not see. If there is no usable frame, I tell you instead of drawing one.