Peaked my interests

As we started looking through the kit I felt overwhelmed by all the stuff in front of me. I didn't really know what to touch first or if I could even touch any of it. After getting the OK, I gravitated toward this Roz Crews piece.



It was little and cute, bright and intimate. I could tell there were handwritten things in it and sometimes you can't look at words and not read them. I noticed the sole match in the transparent yellow box and I was like "hm... pyromania?" Half-asleep, it was now my mission to figure out how to set fire to these pieces of paper. There was no way to light the match in the kit within the kit so I turned to the internet. I learned two or three ways of non-conventional ways to set a match ablaze but since these things weren't mine, I had to restrain my inner instinct to destroy. The way Crews gave me the option, sort of, to set things on fire but no way to truly followthrough really just GOT me. I only had one chance to get it right but regardless, that wasn't the time/place to set someone else's belongings on fire.

The Oblique Strategies deck was something else that spoke to me as a piece.



Something about the tactility of cards and their innate playful nature felt interesting to me. There were so many options within the deck that some of the first questions I thought of were "which card do I listen to..." and "which card is the RIGHT card?" The only thing I could think of doing was to treat it like a Tarot deck, letting chance tell me what to do. If I deliberately went through the deck looking for what I wanted to do, the purpose of the cards is diminished. That way of thinking is specific to me but I believe that the power of the cards is in fate. If I'm lost and I don't know what to do but have a seemingly infinite number of possibilities/options I find solace in doing my rituals and letting the natural world lead me to the next step.