About the work

A closer look.

Bring me the thing you can't throw away: a keepsake, a gift from someone who's gone, a small object that outlived the person or the moment it belongs to. It can be the thing itself, or just the memory of one that's already lost. Maybe it's grief. Maybe it's a memorial, an anniversary, a loss you never got to name out loud. Whatever it is, tell me why it's hard to let go, in whatever words you have. I send back one sentence: the reason it's still here, said plainly, said once. Written by someone who isn't living inside it, because the person closest to a thing is the worst one to name it. You get a PDF with the line set as a small placard you can print, plus a 300 to 500 word piece about the object and the person attached to it. One revision included. A gift you can hand to someone else, or the sentence you finally get to keep.