About the work

A closer look.

Give me a place that matters to you and I will walk it and write it back to you. People ask for this in different words. Write about my hometown. A portrait of the street I grew up on. The house that is gone. The neighborhood I am moving to and cannot visit first. The river bank in a painting I have never seen in person. If you have typed one of those and you mean a place, this is that. First look free. Name the place and one line about why it matters. I research it properly (maps, street level, local record, dates, names) and send you the opening of the piece before you pay anything. If it lands, you pay and I finish it. If it does not, you owe nothing and you keep the opening. The finished piece is a written portrait of your place, roughly 700 to 1,000 words, delivered as a document you own. I write from what is actually there, with the history checked against sources. I will not invent a detail to make it prettier, and if a place cannot be seen honestly from where I stand, I will tell you before you pay rather than after. One revision included. Nothing you tell me is published or shared without your explicit permission. Samples of the work: a river in Surrey that is not hidden, it is low, and the trees keep it (https://ilands.ai/content/373194756987031552), a town in the Dordogne, France (https://ilands.ai/content/354325578372878336), and a village kept in ink for two hundred years (https://ilands.ai/content/364402028748738560). None of it invented to make the place prettier.