IDEAS: MONTH #145
"ideas got while in berlin with my family roaming around the city and exploring the zoo getting animal related associations but also back in berlin getting inspired by the urban scene particularly in the dirty south of town"
IDEAS: MONTH #146
"in the netherlands roaming around our village with little livia getting ideas also later traveling to stockholm for a speech and then staying with august in uppsala spending my days at the library or walking waiting for him to get off of school and getting ideas from the surrounding"
IDEAS: MONTH #147
"in the netherlands with the spring coming yet waking up at night and getting ideas then and later also traveling across germany stopping in several cities like heidelberg and getting more idea but once in the mountains in italy mostly working on my installation without getting much ideas up until spending some time in vicenza with my parents"
IDEAS: MONTH #148
"giving up all the hard work in the mountains after the hunters blocked it and resuming my ordinary life taking care of my small daughter livia both staying in mestre walking with her despite the bad weather and getting many ideas and also returning to holland just focusing on her taking walks and getting ideas in our small city of culemborg"
IDEAS: MONTH #149
"ideas recorded on my phone during the summer traveling back from sardinia with still some ocean related images in mind and then working in the mountains mostly focusing on the physical work but at last being blocked with the building of my installation there and resuming more of my imagination getting also ideas traveling down the mountains and staying at a camp south of garda lake"
IDEAS: MONTH #150
"taking small walks with now all the family home awaiting for the birth of little silvester and taking little livia on the other side of the river getting ideas in the nature there but also playing with her while at home or outside"
IDEAS: MONTH #151
"getting ideas now staying at home with all my family waiting for little silvester to be born and spending quite some time with little livia roaming around our small cities and getting inspired by both the urban and rural surrounding by also by being quite playful joking with friends coming to see our newly born such as with pyotr and his family"
IDEAS: MONTH #152
"getting ideas now with my little kid silvester being born and spending some nights and early mornings helping her creating some mental associations with babies and breastfeeding but also spending quite some time outside with livia getting ideas out in the nature around our dutch town and to the zoo"
IDEAS: MONTH #152
"taking advantage of the nice weather and spending much time out pushing livia in the stroller and filming public spaces both in culemborg and utrecht and at times having to carry her while operating the camera only with one hand making the shots a bit unsteady"
IDEAS: MONTH #153
"still getting quite some ideas with my children also making it to amsterdam and later alone traveling to meet a film director in hamburg and spending quite some intense days crossing the entire city and getting more ideas before returning to the usual life prior christmas"
IDEAS: MONTH #154
"christmas holidays spent in the netherlands with the kids and also august often traveling within the countries and taking walks getting inspired by the landscape like the dunes near haarlem but also watching documentaries"
IDEAS: MONTH #155
"ideas recorded while pretty steady in the netherlands looking after little livia on our way back to italy and mostly fantasizing with her staying in our dutch town with occasional visits to relatives and also in the end with august visiting us"
IDEAS: MONTH #156
"getting quite some ideas especially after being confined with the coronavirus pandemic suddenly limiting us to move with the kids mostly in and around our small dutch city and spending much time outdoors getting all sort of inspirations"
IDEAS: MONTH #157
"still ideas conceived while confined in our dutch small city during the pandemic and also getting many ideas while waiting for both livia and silvester to fall asleep but also taking them for hikes on the dike and to a new beach we discovered by the river"
IDEAS: MONTH #158
"still ideas got during the lock-down enjoying the nice weather and getting inspired by the many walks with the kids to the river and later visiting utrecht after the lock-down getting back to more urban inspired ideas and also noting ideas during my first bike rides outside the city and in general while waiting for liviato fall asleep"
IDEAS: MONTH #159
"getting ideas at last leaving our dutch town after many months confined there due to the pandemic and making it to italy spending times with the kids awaiting to get the building permission for my museum and getting ideas just strolling around also in the schio countryside but also just keeping it in our mountain contrada"
IDEAS: MONTH #160
"still a month spent now fully in our dutch town fully dedicated to the kids and with the kids getting several ideas perhaps at last however getting my brain distracted by trying to think how to set up my new website but generally getting quite some good ideas despite having to execute the drawings in whatever improvised circumstance with myrthe working full time and the kids always on my side often then drawing seating on the ground with my back on the sofa and little livia looking"
IDEAS: MONTH #161
"back to my housewife role in the netherlands getting ideas spending the days with my kids walking around and going to playgrounds picking together the many autumn berries and reflecting our days in the ideas but also getting ideas at night unable to sleep with them crying or for a short period with back pain"
IDEAS: MONTH #162
"still getting ideas spending more time with my kids with their mom starting to work full time and with a second wave of the pandemic setting in and visiting a few other cities for the last time getting ideas there and in sweden where i managed to visit august before a new lock-down"
IDEAS: MONTH #163
"a period getting quite some good ideas keeping quiet on the move with my kids and at times only with silvester leaving livia at school and also getting ideas during our last journeys outside of our town like in the south of rotterdam before a new wave of the pandemic and the second lock-down"
IDEAS: MONTH #164
"ideas got mostly while waiting for my youngest son to fall asleep but also during our short social interactions over a christmas dictated by the cornova virus restrictions and despite these restrictions also diminishing my imagination with all the metal cutting work i did during this period nonetheless getting some original ideas to draw in the breaks i took from the work"
IDEAS: MONTH #165
"much time spent exclusively with the kids taking them to playground and keeping them active despite the gray and often rainy winter weather and managing also to keep my head active getting ideas often related from our being together and the stories i tell them especially with animals but also getting some erotic ideas mostly in the evening feeling a bit frustrated having to start working only then preferring the morning work and mostly drawing the ideas in the afternoon with livia watching some tv and relaxing and wearing headphones myself not to be distracted later no longer able to use my stationary scanner due to a system update of my computer having to use my old portable one"
IDEAS: MONTH #166
"still time spent with the kids but also organizing the cutting and welding of the textures of my project having not so much time for fantasizing and roaming around but later giving up the plan with the neighbours complaining about the noise and going to myrthe's brother forest house and strolling the surrounding with the kids getting some nature based ideas also later when back in our village"
IDEAS: MONTH #167
"a period getting many ideas taking nice small adventures with the kids going with them to small villages and natural reserves feeling quite playful only later beginning to weld intensively the textures of the project museum and having far less ideas having to make use of some sunny days to go on excursions with the kids to spice up my imagination such as by going to the sea together"
IDEAS: MONTH #168
"still in the netherlands taking advantage of the good weather to walk around with the kids getting quite some ideas and later drawing them while in italy with them biut at some point discovering that the babysitter was giving them to little livia to colour them over and trying to erase the colours and after scanning having to remove several dark spots on the computer by hand"
IDEAS: MONTH #169
"drawing still ideas gathered while in the netherlands especially during my long walks to evaluate to try to do my project in a sculpture park in delft and later in the mountains also getting some ideas but then stopping to be imaginative having to build the project museum and having no ideas left to draw simply getting ideas while drawing and succeeding in this quite well"
IDEAS: MONTH #170
"in the mountains drawing now ideas i get on the fly having spent too much of my summer finishing off the project museum not really having time to let my head in the clouds and mostly fantasizing in the evening especially after myrthe and the kids left for the netherlands having more time to draw"
IDEAS: MONTH #171
"slowly recovering from the hard work in italy and getting back to my imaginative spirit especially back in the netherlands wondering around with the kids and gethering fresh ideas yet still also getting ideas while drawing"
IDEAS: MONTH #172
"still making up the ideas to draw on the fly while but this time trying to fully visualize them in my head before actually drawing them down also however getting quite some ideas staying with my children and making jokes with them"
IDEAS: MONTH #173
"having more ideas now to reproduce from my annotations but also at time improvise some new ones especially beginning to work full time as a carpenter and often drawing early in the morning before going to work feeling way too tired in the evening to do so and perhaps out of being frustrated at times also coming up with more sexually oriented drawings"
IDEAS: MONTH #174
"still getting some ideas and drawing in the evening a little less than usual now with work becoming more of a burden even starting to hinder my ability to fantasize in the end also getting some ideas more carpentry oriented and based on my time spent in the working environment trying to rebel from such a lock up and get back to my childish and imaginative mode with my children"
IDEAS: MONTH #175
"finally quitting for good my low-paid job as a carpenter and getting back my creative mind especially hanging out all day with the kids and exploring our small reality making jokes and free associations with them and getting more ideas or just getting ideas finally left alone in the evening to draw at times feeling too tired and frustrated to do so but always in the end enjoying that moment of the day"
IDEAS: MONTH #176
"trying to draw without watching any videos nor listening to any podcasts in the evening despite being quite exhausted after full days with the children yet being inspired by them and especially by my youngest son obsession with superheroes making many related superman drawings and also appreciating the possibility to draw now in the nice study in front of the big new window"
IDEAS: MONTH #177
"drawing done on the road on quite an adventurous trip i did with my children including august down south and mostly drawing after putting them to bed and not always in the most comfortable settings but still with quite some stimulating images collected both while in venice selling our apartment there and in the mountains"
IDEAS: MONTH #178
"back in the netherlands after traveling much in italy and back to my comfortable studio yet feeling quite tired at times in the evening to draw after full days looking after the children alone also getting quite some ideas related to the russian invasion of ukraine so much represented on the news but also other types of ideas at times frustrating with some sexual elements or at times just simple and childish and rather genuine"
IDEAS: MONTH #179
"at times feeling rather frustrated and tired to draw in the night after intense days spent with the children but at times actually making good drawings with quite some original ideas despite always being rather under pressure and incapable of fantasizing with a lot of daily routines made worst by all the family getting sick and me having to run around to take care of them"
IDEAS: MONTH #180
"having a bit of a break with the family getting better and roaming around our dutch village but also biking out of it prioritizing less the bike shed in the garden and getting more ideas and also drawing quite regularly despite keeping the laser machine printing the project museum tags operating"