Notes on the local.

On paying closer attention to the places we call home.

OCW—003 / CH

A portfolio can exist in many places at once. This chapter starts with a simple constraint: look closer to home.

Our immediate surroundings are the context here. Not as a fixed aesthetic, but as a place to observe materials, infrastructure, typography, everyday objects, and the quiet decisions that shape our surroundings.

These notes make space for unfinished thoughts. A detail on a walk. A pattern in a facade. A question worth coming back to.