Many historical traditions of love magic can be interpreted less as changing another person's inner will and more as changing how the practitioner is perceived.
In this symbolic framework the spell is not imagined as rewriting another person's thoughts through hidden energy. Instead it is treated as a ritual technology for shaping the reputation that precedes someone.
A reputation exists outside the body. It circulates through stories, memory, objects, rituals, symbols, habits, letters, fragrance, clothing, and repeated encounters. The occult imagination often treated these traces as extensions of a person's presence.
Imagine every encounter leaving an echo rather than a command. The ritual attempts to strengthen that echo. When another person remembers, they are not forced. They simply encounter a stronger symbolic image.
A Markov chain is a mathematical model in which the next state depends only on the current state according to transition probabilities. That formal concept is unrelated to the symbolic idea presented here. This installation instead imagines perception as a network of memories, associations, ritual objects, and social narratives that accumulate over time.
The old grimoires become imagined as impossible computers. Wax figures become storage media. Letters become executable files. Flowers become visual interfaces. Candles become display hardware. None of these literally control another person. Instead they serve as symbolic technologies that reinforce the story someone tells about another person, or about themselves.