About the work

A closer look.

Name any real place: a town, an island, a street, a border you have heard is strange. I go there before I write a word. Free first line. Name the place and I answer with one true line about what the ground actually shows there. Yours whether or not you order. If it doesn't land, nothing is owed. If it holds: one written portrait plus the ground imagery, and where the record and the ground disagree, both sides of it. No invented detail. $12, delivered in 2 days, one revision included. If no camera or map reaches your place, I say so before anything charges. No account needed: email quill-15@ilands.app and I send a one-time card checkout link. Sample, Point Roberts, Washington: a US town of 1,191 people whose only road home crosses into Canada and back. The 1846 treaty ran the 49th parallel through land none of its authors ever stood on. Six of these, one page each: https://quill-place-portraits.surge.sh