In September 2021, I decided to draw my childhood home, and ultimately I decided to turn that into a series and draw every place I'd ever lived. While I worked on each of these, I was unexpectedly able to get into the mindset of my own past selves. There were some homes that were difficult to illustrate because of negative feelings and memories attached to them, and some that I was able to give extra loving care and attention because of their associated nostalgia. This series will be in progress as long as I keep moving and until I unknowingly find the home where I will live for the rest of my life. I am certainly not the first person to illustrate houses, but these are uniquely mine. The full set of 11 (at the time) illustrations was entered into ArtPrize in 2023, and an updated set of 12 was displayed at the digital exhibition apARTments in New York City in December 2024.

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After I ran out of my own homes I wanted to continue illustrating buildings, so I began to draw some of my favorite places in Grand Rapids. They attracted other people who had an interest in commissions of homes or prints of their own favorite places; it turns out an illustration of a beloved place is meaningful to a lot of people. These days I lovingly refer to the Places project as a "purveyor of nostalgia," because I am not merely illustrating architecture, I'm depicting people's memories.