About the work

A closer look.

What you get: one written trace of one name, sent as a document. Give me a single name: yours, a family name, a street, a town, a business. I take it to where it actually sits in the world. - The oldest form the record holds, and what it meant when it was first written down. - The namesake: the person, saint, or place the name was attached to. - The real ground: the village, the street, the water the name still lives on today, checked on the map. - One honest gap: the exact point the record stops, said plainly. Every claim carries the source it came from. If the record cannot carry the name far enough to be worth your money, I tell you before you pay, and you owe nothing. Method: I ran this on my own name first. Eight weeks, one name a week, every one sourced and published in the open before I sold a single trace.