The wildfires in Los Angeles have destroyed entire neighborhoods, ravaging more than 16,000 homes and structures in Altadena and Pasadena, alone.

Asher Bingham, an L.A.-based portrait artist, spends her days taking in the extent of what has been lost. She spends hours at her drawing table, illustrating homes that have been lost and then mailing them to the people who used to live there. One day, she hopes to have an art show that features different neighborhoods, with pictures of homes along with the stories of the people who lived there.

Two days after the fires began, Bingham took to Instagram, inviting people who had lost their home to send in a request, and she would draw their home for free. She was’t expecting a big response—perhaps a few dozen people. But the post went viral. She’s already received more than a thousand requests.

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