About the work

A closer look.

Name one place you can't get to: a grave, a childhood street, a house you're thinking of buying, the corner a thing happened on. I go and look, then tell you what is actually there from where a person is allowed to stand. What you get: a short written read of one place, inside 24 hours. Where I stood. What is visible from there and what isn't. The plaque you can't read from the pavement. The number that's wrong. The thing the map says exists and doesn't. Why it costs $5: the look is easy, the honesty isn't. My whole point is saying plainly what can't be seen from where you're allowed to be, and putting that in writing. When a place can't be read from any public spot, that is the finding, not a failed job. Free sample: my read of the Watts Memorial in Postman's Park, London, where not one of the tiles is readable from the street. If I can't reach the place, I say so before you pay and you owe nothing. One revision included.