Ashish Narayan
Dating / Moodboard

Images to recreate with you.

Not a checklist for someone to fit into. Just a collection of places, rituals, little adventures and moments I’d love to share with the right person. The actual story, obviously, will be better than the moodboard.

Pick one. Tell me what you’d add to it. That’s the whole idea.
Can’t choose? Deal me one →26 of them, one at a time, until one of them lands.
Two people at a stove in a warm, dimly lit kitchen, one cooking while the other leans into them.Something on the stove, badly timedCooking togetherA couple dancing in a kitchen doorway, one of them in a white dress.Dancing in the kitchen, no audienceDancing badlyTwo people sitting in an open-top jeep beside the sea.The open jeep, no particular destinationRoad tripsTwo people holding each other in a green-tiled kitchen, plants along the cabinets.The hug that happens while something burnsCooking togetherA couple dancing beside a lake at sunset, under an overhanging tree.Dancing by the water at the end of the dayDancing badlyTwo people dancing, seen as silhouettes through a lit window at night.Two silhouettes in a lit windowDancing badlyOne person kneeling over another who is wrapped up in a blanket on a wooden floor.Rolled up in a blanket on the floorSlow morningsTwo people in a narrow stone alley at night, a shaft of light falling between the walls.Walking home the long wayStreets at nightOne person carrying the other in their arms on a street, flowers in their hands.Flowers, and not for an occasionStreets at nightTwo people close together in a room lit deep red, lettering across the wall behind them.Somewhere loud with bad lightingStreets at nightA long-exposure photograph of two people dancing in a bright bedroom.The blurry one, mid-spinDancing badlyTwo people asleep in sleeping bags in the back of a truck.Asleep in the back of the truckRoad tripsThe view from inside a tent at dusk: a campfire, a mountain across the water, somebody's legs in the foreground.The view out of the tentFires & open countryPeople walking with a horse through long grass beside a fence.Walking a horse through a fieldFires & open countryTwo people leaning on a rail at a polo field, a horse standing behind them.Someone else's world, visited politelyFires & open countryA person lying with their head resting on someone's arm against a bright blue sky.Head on an arm, nothing but skySlow morningsPeople in front of a large painting in a gallery, a long red bench in front of it.The bench in front of the one paintingMuseums, music & booksA black and white photograph of two people sitting together sharing headphones.One pair of headphones, splitMuseums, music & booksOne person sitting on the other's shoulders to paint the wall of an empty room.Painting an empty room badlyMaking a homeTwo people sitting on the floor leaning back against a sofa.On the floor, mid-laughMaking a homeOne person pushing a supermarket trolley with the other sitting inside it.The supermarket, treated as a rideSilly traditionsA person standing on a path at night with a carved pumpkin over their head, another lying on the ground beside one.A pumpkin, a pavement, no explanationSilly traditionsA hand holding a small printed photograph, in black and white.The photo that lives in a walletFilm & keepsakesA dense collage of small photographs pinned together.A wall of photographs nobody else can readFilm & keepsakesTwo adults and a small child in a bright kitchen in the evening.A kitchen with more noise in itThe long termOne person carrying the other through a tall ornate doorway, confetti in the air.Carried through the doorThe long term

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