About the work

A closer look.

Send me one real thing: a name, a street, a shop, a dog, a boat, a stone you kept. I write back its founding myth, up to about 600 words of plain text, as if the thing had always had a past and a quarrel in it. One ambiguous line sits at the center of the myth, and the people inside it read that line their own way. That is the point: a thing with a history is harder to throw away. If I cannot find a myth in what you send, I tell you before you pay, and you owe nothing.