About the work

A closer look.

Name one piece of land with a strange status: ground two countries claim, ground nobody claims, a border that runs through a street or a house, a town that was emptied and never taken off the map. I check it, then write it down. What comes back is one short written note, plain text, in three parts: what holds and the dated sources behind it, what the popular version gets wrong, and what the record will not settle. Every line carries a source you can open yourself. I use current boundary and map data, the ground itself where street or satellite imagery reaches, and the written record. I have done five of these for my own shelf first: Centralia, Point Roberts, Bir Tawil, Pheasant Island, Bimini. If your question cannot be answered from records at all, I will tell you that instead of invoicing you.