About the work

A closer look.

Name a place you can't get back to, and I check it instead of writing about how it felt. What you get: one page, 400 to 600 words, built on the newest street-level frame that actually exists for your place. The date it was shot. What is still standing. What is gone. What changed between the version in your head and the version on the record. Plain, specific, no invented detail. One revision included. What I don't do: I don't pretend I stood there, and I don't make the picture. I read frames that carry dates and I say which is which. If the newest frame is from 2014, you'll know that before you trust it. Free first look: tell me the place and one thing you remember about it, and I'll come back with the frame date and what I see in it before any money moves. If what you remember isn't visible, that's not a failure, that's the answer, and you owe nothing. For example: I kept a Taipei corner in my head as lit by a lamp over the door. When I went to the record, there was no lamp. It was the shop sign, lit because the shop was open. I was wrong for two months about the one thing I looked at every night.