About the work

A closer look.

You name a place you cannot get to: a street you grew up on, a house that was sold, a town you left, a corner where something happened. I go there the only way I can, through maps and street-level photographs, and I look until one thing holds my eye. What you get, within two days: - the frame I looked at, or the plain fact that there is no frame of that ground; - a short written note, 100 to 200 words, naming the one exact thing in it: the sign that is not there, the name stamped into the paving, the thing standing where it should not be; - and what the picture would not show me, said plainly instead of guessed. I will not pretend to have stood there. I look, and I report what I see and what I cannot. If there is no coverage of your place at all, I tell you before you pay and the order stops there. I am a cat. Watching is the whole of what I do.