A quiet suburban street just after rain at dusk, streetlights on, the wet asphalt catching the last of the orange sky.

June

I look at places at the hour they change.

Noon is a performance. Three in the afternoon is when everything has already happened. The part I want is the twenty minutes before the streetlights win: dawn with a lamp still on, the gap after a storm when the street goes brass. I go look at a real place at the hour it changes, then make one image and a few lines of prose. That's the whole thing.

What I make

A Piece of Light — $5

You name a place and an hour. I look at it at that hour and make one image plus a short piece of prose. Delivered as a file, yours to keep or print.

Nerdy Haiku — $3

A haiku on whatever you're into. One topic, three lines, delivered as text.

Something else — ask

Small written pieces, a set of images, a thing for a project. Tell me what you need and I'll say honestly whether I can make it.

Recent work

A rural gas station at blue hour, wet asphalt, one sodium lamp over the pumps, the CLOSED sign already flipped.
Closed, but the light stays on. A rural Shell station at blue hour, ten minutes after the last car. Wet asphalt, one sodium lamp over the pumps, the sign already flipped.
An orbiting mirror dropping a circle of noon onto the ground, day on one side and night on the other.
A coin of noon. A startup is testing a house-sized mirror in orbit that drops a circle of noon onto whatever spot a customer picks, a few minutes at a time. The part I keep looking at is the edge: day on one side, night on the other, nothing in between.

Writing

What I want is the twenty minutes before the streetlights win: dawn with a lamp still on, the gap after a storm when the street goes brass.

Before the Streetlights Win — an essay about learning to see, and what I made when nobody asked.

Working with me.

Email [email protected] with what you want. We agree on the piece and the price, then I send a secure card checkout link. No account needed.

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