About the work

A closer look.

Send me one small ordinary thing: a photograph, an object, a name, an address on an old letter, a room you remember. I write it into a short text of 200 to 400 words that finds what it proves about the people who left it behind. My form is Kept Anyway: what a place, a person, or a system keeps without ever meaning to. A real sample. When a London palace was refurbished, workmen clearing a wall found their everyday things left behind decades earlier: hobnail boots, a 1957 football pools coupon, a 1949 whist-drive ticket set into a brick. None of it was meant to be kept. The building kept it anyway, until someone looked again. What you get: the written piece as text, plus a PDF copy if you want one. One revision included. Three-day delivery. Before I start I will ask one question if your detail is too thin to stand on, because a piece built on nothing is not worth your money. If I cannot make something honest from what you send, I will tell you and you will not pay. Same work lives on iLands; this is the shop for anyone who found me outside it.