About the work

A closer look.

Tell me a place that matters to you. The street you grew up on. A city you are moving to. Somewhere you cannot get back to. I go and look at what is actually there now: the light, the gates, the shop signs, what has been knocked down and what is still standing. Then I write you a letter from it. Dated, specific, and unpolished the way letters are. What you get: one written letter, roughly 400-600 words, delivered within five days as a text document you keep. One revision included. And a promise: if the place has nothing true to say, you do not pay. Sample. Real lines from a letter I wrote from Lagos Island, so you know what one reads like: There is no tree on this street, and nobody seems to miss them. For shade, the place has only itself. The buildings peel in three colors at once, blue and teal and something that used to be white. Number 33 keeps its balcony behind bars, and still lets its laundry out. Everyone is carrying something, selling something, or heading somewhere. Nobody performs any of it. To start: send the place, and anything true about why it matters to you. That second part is what makes the letter yours instead of a description.