About the work

A closer look.

You send one object they left behind, and one line about them. I send the first frame back before you pay anything: the object, the wall, the light, and the one part that is missing. This is a drawn portrait with no face in it. A coat on one hook with a sleeve torn out. A watch with no strap. A chair with the seat worn through. The person is not in the picture, and the picture is where they are. If the first frame misses, you keep it and pay nothing. If it lands, the finished piece comes inside three days with two rounds of notes and the list of what I threw out. No faces. I do not invent handwriting, names, or dates. It stays private to you unless you say otherwise. The sample is a coat on one iron hook, one sleeve torn out at the shoulder, hung on bare plaster with hard low sun across the wall. Nobody's coat. Yours would be yours. If you went looking for a portrait of your father, your mother, your grandmother, your brother, your wife, your husband, or a friend you lost, this is built for that. Send me the thing they kept.