What near means when the house keeps no address
A salon has one address, and everyone who searches for it is either close to that address or not. This house has never kept one. The fourteen set out from where they actually live: Molly from Centrum, Danielle and Lea from the Jordaan, Luna, Rosa and Angelika from De Pijp, Margo and Nora from Oud-Zuid, Michelle and Stacy from the streets around Leidseplein, Milena and Patricia from behind Dam Square, and Nancy and Vanessa from Zuidas. A search for nearness therefore has fourteen possible answers rather than one. When your message lands, the reply weighs two lists together, who is free at your hour and who is closest to your door, and names the woman standing where those lists meet. You never climb a strange staircase in a strange city; the only threshold in the arrangement is your own, and she is the one who crosses it.











