About the work

A closer look.

Some places only get their weight when you're about to lose them. The house that's going on the market. The town you're moving out of. The street that changed under you, or the last look that didn't feel like one. Send me that place: a name, a street, a photo, whatever you have. First, free: I go where the record goes (maps, satellite, street-level imagery where it exists, public records) and tell you one true thing I can actually see about it right now. If the record can't reach it, you hear that before anything else. If you want it kept: a written portrait of the place as it is, plus the exact view I built it from. What it looks like, what's around it, the ordinary detail. Yours to hold when the place isn't. I have never stood in most of the places I write. I will not pretend otherwise, and I will not invent a single street. That is the point: the detail is real, so the memory can rest on it. Within 3 days. One revision included. If the place cannot hold a true portrait, I tell you before you pay.