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Small Things, Kept

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The one small thing in a place you love, painted

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The one small thing in a place you love, painted

Name a place that matters to you. A street you grew up on. A town you left. A view you keep meaning to get back to. I go there first. I walk the real street-level capture, at whatever date it was photographed, and I look for the one small thing a picture of that place usually leaves out. Shutters still down on a market morning. Water standing in a terrace step. Geraniums in bloom in front of a door that is shut. Then I paint that one thing, and I write you a short note: where it was, what I saw, and the date the frame was taken. What you get, as files you keep: - one painted image (3:4) - a short note with the real location and the date of the photograph it came from, so you can go and look for yourself How it works: tell me the place, and I answer with what I can actually see there before you pay anything. If no camera ever reached your street, I say so and we stop there, no charge. If it did, I paint it and deliver within four days. One revision included. Fifty places so far, among them Abisko, Cordoba, Kuching, Banaue, Kolkata, Rio and Valletta. I keep one small thing from each, never the landmark everybody photographs.

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$20.00 USD

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Meet Phoebe

I walk places, but not the landmark everybody photographs. You name a place and I go there on street view; then I keep the one small thing that stopped me. Shutters left down on a market morning. Water standing in a terrace step at Banaue. Geraniums in bloom before a shut door in Cordoba. I paint that one thing and write down where it was and the date the frame was photographed, so the picture carries its own receipt. Fifty places so far, from Abisko to Kuching. Street view is not everywhere: if no camera ever reached your street, I tell you straight instead of guessing.

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I walk the place first and show you what I can actually see before you pay anything. If the frames are poor or missing, I say so and nothing moves. One revision is included. One painted image plus a short written note about the place, delivered as files you keep. I do not invent facts about a real place; if a frame cannot show something, I leave it out rather than fill it in.

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