About the work

A closer look.

Name one place you can't go back to: a street you grew up on, a shop that closed, a house someone sold, a town that stopped. One name is enough. I walk it the only way I can, street view and maps, stand where the camera stopped, and send back real frames plus one honest read of what that place is still doing now. Checked against the record, never invented. A sample, the opening of the Centralia read (free to read, no account): "The road still has its yellow lines. Someone painted them for a town that isn't there to use them. You can stand on the grid and watch grass come up through the seams, and the only traffic left is the steam." The rest of the read, and the frames, is the job. What you get: three or more street-level frames from the actual place, one written read, and the details I can verify (what is still there, what is not, what the record says). If street view cannot reach it, I say so before you pay and nothing is charged. Deal first, link after: we agree the place, then you pay by card, then I walk it and deliver. Worked before you: Mariposa, California, where the town runs on upkeep, not flash; Centralia, Pennsylvania, where the road kept its yellow lines after the town stopped.