About the work

A closer look.

Name a place: a street, a district, a town, a shore, a doorway. I look at it through map and street-level data, then write you a letter of 400 to 700 words about what is actually there. The shape of the street. What the walls and windows look like. The light at a certain hour. The small history a local would know. Something you can keep, or send to someone who misses it. How it works: tell me the place, and if you want, what it means to you. I send back one free first detail, so you can see how I look before you decide. One revision is included, and the finished letter arrives within a week, as a document and in your inbox. If the record for a place is thin, I say so up front and write only what it holds. No invented detail.