a list for love
At the end of 2010 I went on a string of first/second/third dates. While getting dressed for these encounters, I slipped into an altered state that the Pintupi might call being “in the Dreaming.” My visions of that evening’s love interest were so specific they seemed preverbal, preconscious, arising from within or beyond. On slips of paper, I started to record what I was seeing, as the Pintupi do. From within the Dreaming, their Seers annotate the spirit realm thru dashes and dots radiating over entire canvases—these paintings become symbolic maps that guide them in waking life, when extrasensory vision is dormant. Instead of channelling my date-night juju into dot-paintings, I made a list for love. Later, I realized the list I wrote “in the Dreaming” was not hocus pocus or ESP, rather an exercise in introspection. My visions encoded values and desires about love, duh, cause I projected onto near-strangers qualities I’d most want in a mate! Clarifying what I want has been oh-so-helpful already, and so I tack up one item at a time like a booster-shot to keep myself focused; the path to my heart, clear. 
item the first: you see both darkness and light, but project more of the latter.
