Dot to Dot

Dream - Who’s playing?

In a dream,

I walked from the parking lot, looking for my buddy whom I was to pick up, into a bar, which then turned into a church stage where a service was happening. The service was a series of videos interspersed with congregational singing. I watched and participated until I made a discreet exit out into the parking lot again, and the scene changed to a grocery store where I was watching a small child move fearlessly through the store.

When I woke up, I noticed the cars in the parking lot across the street and thought I should include some cars in my current drawing - Dot to Dot. Then, I saw the connections between the tires and the big dots in my drawing. The tires on the cars (the dots in my drawing) are connected with lines. The shapes of the cars are very similar to the random shapes created by the dot-to-dot lines. My subconscious must have picked this up already, and it had already employed the dots and shapes in the drawing.

I started this drawing without a clear theme. I have used this abstract formula before, connecting dots with lines, to get a drawing started, so I wasn’t overly committed or convinced of this path. Perhaps I would rub out this beginning and start again. I drew for a couple of hours, and then I took a break from drawing and looked at IG. There was a site that I hadn’t been to before, TheGeneralStrikeUS, and a post with Angela Davis talking about revolution. I glanced at the logo on the site. It was a dot-to-dot drawing. It seemed an affirmation of what I still don’t know, but at least an affirmation of the drawing I had started. I agreed to continue with the drawing.

I mention all this as I try to see how the mind works and where the boundaries are. Where is the inside and the outside? Where is the mind located? What are these confirmations that I often get from the extended world as I explore with imagery in the drawings? Am I being guided? What is the agency that “I”call Me? Who’s playing?

Connecting the Dots - Creating the Universe