diff --git a/patches/03-static-hugo.patch b/patches/03-static-hugo.patch
index ee0114a..f190c47 100644
--- a/patches/03-static-hugo.patch
+++ b/patches/03-static-hugo.patch
@@ -6,19 +6,26 @@ index 0b45290..8b34049 100644
  export const Static: QuartzEmitterPlugin = () => ({
    name: "Static",
    async *emit({ argv, cfg }) {
-+    // Copy Quartz's own internal static assets (quartz/static/) → output/static/
++    // Copy Quartz's own internal static assets (quartz/static/) -> output/static/
      const staticPath = joinSegments(QUARTZ, "static")
      const fps = await glob("**", staticPath, cfg.configuration.ignorePatterns)
      const outputStaticPath = joinSegments(argv.output, "static")
-@@ -18,6 +19,21 @@ export const Static: QuartzEmitterPlugin = () => ({
+@@ -18,6 +19,28 @@ export const Static: QuartzEmitterPlugin = () => ({
        await fs.promises.copyFile(src, dest)
        yield dest
      }
 +
-+    // Copy user-facing static assets (static/) → output/ preserving paths.
++    // Copy user-facing static assets (static/) -> output/ preserving paths.
 +    // This mirrors Hugo's convention: static/ox-hugo/foo.png is served at /ox-hugo/foo.png,
 +    // which matches the src="/ox-hugo/..." paths that ox-hugo writes into exported markdown.
-+    const userStaticPath = "static"
++    //
++    // We resolve static/ relative to argv.directory (the content directory) rather than
++    // the current working directory. This is because org-garden runs Quartz with:
++    //   - working directory: QUARTZ_PATH (the Quartz installation)
++    //   - --directory: output_dir/content (where markdown files are)
++    // But ox-hugo places static files in output_dir/static (sibling to content/).
++    // Using dirname(argv.directory) gives us output_dir, where static/ actually lives.
++    const userStaticPath = joinSegments(dirname(argv.directory), "static")
 +    if (fs.existsSync(userStaticPath)) {
 +      const userFps = await glob("**", userStaticPath, cfg.configuration.ignorePatterns, false)
 +      for (const fp of userFps) {