Collect better ways of seeing.

I work between anthropology, food studies, hospitality, and operations. What those have in common is a habit: looking at an ordinary thing long enough to see the system holding it up. A market scale. A knot in a strand of pearls. The grain of a plank cut for a canoe.

The work has four parts, and they are always in this order. Observe closely, and write down what was actually seen rather than what was expected. Research the context — who made it, under what conditions, and what had to exist first. Understand the material and the technique well enough to describe what the hand is doing. Then connect it: to another object, a food, a place, a person, or a system already in the archive.

Caza Rios publishes that work. Every entry is dated, sourced, and open to correction, and every correction is shown on the entry itself. The standards are here so the archive can be checked, not so it can sound official.

It is not a shop and not a magazine. Its only ambition is that you leave having looked at something ordinary more carefully than you did this morning.