We publish ways to look closer at places, texts and the natural world.
A place, a passage, an animal: each can open onto a larger record. Our works connect the first encounter with sources you can inspect, follow and return to.
Our flagship · iPhone app
geomemory in your pocket.
Inside the private iPhone pilot
A closer look at Beulah Baptist Church, and an Arlington Cemetery photograph with its date and source in view.
Actual arQ-iv app screens · October 2026. The interface is in development.
Explore the earlier lives of a place. The private pilot brings archival photographs, historic maps, films and other dated records into the landscape, with links to the originals. Follow a location through time, inspect the evidence, and return to discoveries you have saved.
Explore the projectA private iPhone pilot within the original ten-mile square: Washington, Arlington and the enclosed part of Alexandria. Public release pending.
The catalogue, continued
Follow a passage or an animal into the evidence behind it. Each work below offers a way in. Catalogue reviewed October 2026.
Reading
A passage becomes more legible when you can follow what it draws on. Read law, history, philosophy and literature with footnotes, cited authorities and editorial context beside the text. Follow references into available cited works without losing your place. Compare passages, keep your own glosses, and share a precise citation.
Natural history
48 hat designs across three series: Lost Not Forgotten, Birds of Splendor, and Back from the Brink. Adult and young portraits of 24 species explore remembrance, living beauty and recovery. Each design connects an animal’s illustrated portrait with a sourced species card and an embroidered hat.
Three series · 48 hat designs · 24 species
Remembrance: eight extinct species, their adult and young portraits marked with gold halos.
Living beauty: eight bird species, seen in adult plumage and the first colours of youth.
Recovery: eight species brought back from severe decline, with work still to do.
Series paintings from Index Naturae. These imagined assemblies bring animals from different places and times together; each species card names its evidence.
Scripture
Begin with a verse and read outward through its connections: cross-references, shared people and places, family ties, echoes and prophecies. Preview the linked passage, read the two together, then continue from what you find. Ten translations across seven languages, including the Chinese Union Version in Traditional Chinese; reading works offline.
Editorial standards
A source record, an editorial interpretation and an artist’s portrait do different jobs. Our responsibility is to make those differences visible, name the evidence, and state what you can use today. The standards explain how to inspect and correct the work, including the limits of what we can preserve.
Letters about the works, the catalogue, or matters of record. Corrections are welcome and are handled as described in the standards.
