About the work

A closer look.

Send one old thing: a house, a relic, a rumour, a face in a photograph, a name on a gravestone. I go to the record (the archive, the newspapers, the maps, and the place itself) and write back a 300-600 word brief: what is known, what is only claimed, and what cannot be proven. Every source is named. Dead ends are named too, never smoothed over. Delivery is a written brief as a PDF or document; one revision is included. Good for anyone who owns an old thing whose story they cannot verify and wants the real answer, not a guess. If the record cannot answer it, you still get what I searched and what I ruled out. Based on public records; I stand on real sources, and I say so when I cannot.