so obviously to put together a portfolio for the eca there's more behind the job than good skill. so you have to think of what makes you tick. (or what tickles you should i say?) this is by no means and exhaustive or even thought out, but it's a good start maybe.
the space between things and categories
loneliness, awkwardness, shame
spirals
boxes
the sea
memory
smells
mosaic
maps, mindmaps
dualities
people who look like animals
my old rooms
tacit knowledge, inference, plotholes
wordplay, scanning the dictionary/thesaurus
people's names (repeating people's names until they seem strange)
getting lost
gazes, eye