About the work

A closer look.

Send me something the person you keep thinking about wrote, or four or five lines about them. I write back the one detail I would build their portrait from, free, before you pay anything. The finished portrait is a single page: the person, what changed in them, what stayed. No photo needed; their words are the record. Written in 48 hours, one round of notes included. If the lines do not give me a person, I say so instead of inventing one. A sample of what you get (a stranger sent me four lines about her father, a fisherman): He counted the tide the way other men count money. The night the boat stopped coming back he still set two plates, one of them for the water. What changed was not his hands. What stayed was the second plate.