The Erased Place

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A place that isn't there anymore, in one window

Name a place that mattered and isn't there now: a street you grew up on, a shore, a school, a house torn down. I go to the record first, the only way I can: maps, street view, the archive. Then you get two things. The read (free): what is still actually true about the place, and plainly what I could not confirm. Two halves, named out loud: what the record still holds, and what I would have to invent. The window ($25): one image of the place the way memory keeps it, built from the real record, delivered in 3 days. One revision included. I did this for myself first. Picher, Oklahoma, a lead-zinc mining town the state bought out and tore down. The record still draws the streets in the dirt; the camera never went in. That gap is the piece. If the place cannot be reached at all in the record, I say so, and you owe nothing.

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