POLLUTION: MONTH #145
"a month keeping quite a lot outdoor running out of metal to weld my textures and dedicating more time taking my kids for walk in nature driving to different natural reserve but always getting in a bit of traffic also experiencing some traffic in the our small city and mostly otherwise breathing good air but when making my mosaics breathing a bit of dust even if i am wearing the mask and later receiving at last my shipment of metal from china and beginning to weld it together feeling the need to put more ventilation in the shed and also find replacements for the filters of my protective mask"
POLLUTION: MONTH #146
"a month having to weld twice a day in the metal workshop in the backyard and making a big effort to remove all the fumes i make so as not to inhale them wearing at all times a mask with the proper filters but not really feeling protected and also installing the ventilator in a hole in the wall buying even tubes to make the aspiration more efficient always with the issue however of back air making the welds too porous and beside that also keeping up with grouting the mosaics trying also to protect myself and during the day taking walks with the kids and trying to breath in as much air as possible and also trying to drink milk as my remedy to my itchy throat after the welding"
POLLUTION: MONTH #147
"a month welding intensively to finish at last the textures of my museum and struggling a lot to protect myself fully from the fumes even adding an extra filter inside the mask and against my nose but at last opting to buy a second hand welding helmet with a ventilator and using that throughout my morning and evening welding section still getting a but of throat pain and with my neighbour complaining also about the fume aspirator having at last to put it outside making it far less effective and at last buying a long tube to also keep the mask ventilator outside especially after finding the filters completely saturated and being unable to order new ones in the netherlands ultimately with this set up finishing the work and spending more time now taking walks and even running to fill my lungs with fresh air but also experiencing some traffic in town going to the industrial area to ship the textures and traveling to a land art foundation in delft getting in a lot of traffic despite also going to big cities like utrecht and amsterdam finding them like ghost town due to the lock-down following the pandemic"
POLLUTION: MONTH #148
"a first period in the netherlands no longer welding and only doing some mosaics protecting myself fairly okay from the cement and also talking rather long walks going even from delft all the way into rotterdam and breathing some pollution making it later fairly okay to italy without much pollution and the roads empty due to the pandemic still hitting europe at last making it to the wild mountains and there using the trimmer to cut grass breathing some gases and later welding the project museum textures in larger panels in a neighbour garage doing pretty good with my new helmet but at last getting a cold with all the air constantly flowing down my head"
POLLUTION: MONTH #149
"keeping up welding the project museum textures together with nets holding them up and welding but inhaling less fumes now with august cutting them by hand and only using the trimmer to try to fix the door and at times to better connect some textures together and right in the middle of the month taking a long break with no one helping me with the kids and going with them to my mother's seaside place breathing them the fresh sea breeze and at last returning to the mountains and resuming the building of the project museum with the generator inside it and the exhaustion having more and more troubles to make it out the more august and i kept building the second floor and feeling a bit intoxicated from them"
POLLUTION: MONTH #150
"struggling to weld the textures on the top floor of the project museum and trying not to breath the fumes even at such height and later getting better at it and eventually finishing the job only inhaling some of the tractor exhaustion going up and down to the cube to fix the land around it and pick all the materials and also experiencing some rainy days not breathing any bad air but eventually getting a bit intoxicated trying to oil the cube with the air compressor at last giving it all up and taking healthy walks in the mountains only in the end spending time with august in venice fixing a bit the apartment there and also using some smelly antimold spray finally taking august to milan and experiencing there some traffic"
POLLUTION: MONTH #151
"a period of clean air having finished all the welding of the project museum and dedicating myself to the renovation of our barn in the alps plastering it outside and also going down to venice to finish freshening up our apartment there before making it to my family in holland finding a gray and cold weather but also a very fresh air only with some occasional traffic in the more industrial area of our village and quite a lot of traffic going for a small holiday in dusseldorf"
POLLUTION: MONTH #152
"a period with not so much wind and really now beginning to feel the pollution also in our small dutch city particularly in some quite congested areas and also experiencing quite some traffic driving to natural sites with the kids with some exceptionally hot fall and no rain nor wind to clean the air up"
POLLUTION: MONTH #153
"breathing some quite clean air in the netherlands spending much time outside and only encountering some traffic going south of our village and also at times traveling to other towns like around the small city of gorinchem later also going to provence and breathing quite some good air in the nature but always experiencing heavy traffic and congestions next to all the towns we visited despite provence being advertised as the less polluted place in the whole of france"
POLLUTION: MONTH #154
"traveling back to holland from beautiful provence and immediately starting my new work as a carpenter getting right away quite worry about the strong paint and all the wooden dust and the spray glue used in the badly ventilated workshop luckily in the end going a lot our of it to museums and there breathing relatively good air especially towards the end of the month"
POLLUTION: MONTH #155
"a month fully at work with only some healthy day off in the weekend trying to be out with my kids despite the bad winter weather and at work getting quite much of a toxic air not only from the wood dust i can tolerate but doing metal work cutting bars with an old saw trying not to breath the fumes of the oiled blade and also later welding doing my best to cover myself up and use the fume aspirator at last feeling quite fed up about all the smells but later resuming work with wood and feeling much better trying also to ventilate much more keeping the garage door open"
POLLUTION: MONTH #156
"making quite an effort to breath good air at work often keeping the garage door open while cutting panels yet still getting to breath dust even in the new space with a lot of machines not working properly and getting worry about my lungs but finally going into the very short christmas holiday and cleaning up the dusty attic building a new set up there keeping however the windows open and several days going for walks avoiding to cut wood or the many plaster boards i started placing on the walls and ceilings inhaling good and fresh air during my walks especially with the children"
POLLUTION: MONTH #157
"a month rebelling against working in the dusty and unhealthy carpentry at first building some fancy tables for the rijks museum getting quite congested with the dust also made by my colleagues coming to help me towards the end at later mostly working in a convent in utrecht setting up and exhibition there and not really being exposed to any bad air to then go back to do more tables and closets for the company with more dust and some hardcore bad air some screws in the epoxy coated pavement of the former building at last quitting the job and just spend nice days in the open with my children breathing the fresh air of our village"
POLLUTION: MONTH #158
"having quit my job now no longer having to breath any dust particles but still at times renovating the attic of our dutch house cutting and installing quite some plaster boards making it a bit dusty and then trying to be out with my kids and their mom in the few sunny days at times going for walks like in the near of arnhem finding the city rather polluted and later traveling to italy finding almost no traffic crossing germany but getting quite shocked about the situation in the surrounding of milan while waiting for my oldest son to land at the airport there getting very depressed of the smog and old infrastructure even reaching my native highland to explore a place where to build my new installation finding quite some traffic in asiago with many fancy tourists with fancy cars at last making it to our small apartment in santa caterina enjoying the fresh air there"
POLLUTION: MONTH #159
"breathing an okay air in the mountains but then going to venice enjoying our apartment there for the last time and often taking the ferry to go with the children around the city trying to be in the back to avoid wearing the mandatory mask to curb the pandemic but breathing quite a lot of exhaustion from the old ferry and also traveling with the kids back to the netherlands finding a most awful pollution in milan with months of no rain and a yellow sky in the end crossing the alps and finding a much cleaner air but still quite some traffic even in our village especially when going around the industrial part of it to look for a less polluting car"
POLLUTION: MONTH #160
"back in the netherlands breathing quite some bad air demolishing with a pneumatic hammer the bike shed in our backyard and later using the bricks to make an elevated path on one side using cement and beside that also getting stuck in quite some traffic checking for a new less polluting car and at last purchasing one with some days of quite good air especially with bad weather having to stay at home but then resuming the work in the backyard and also traveling more by car to look for a machine to engrave the museum tags getting stuck once again in some highway traffic"
POLLUTION: MONTH #161
"quite a month with at first increasing pollution perceived in our dutch town with far more traffic than i can remember especially crossing the railroad over the industrial area where i have been trying to get material to keep up with the building of the pathway in our garden and here also mixing the concrete by hand and trying not to get myself to much exposed by it and even in the free days breathing some not so nice air like at the habour getting some sweds to meet up with the boats there making quite a pollution and then cutting metal to prepare myself to drive to italy finding quite some clean air stopping in the black forest but then having to go though the milan area feeling as if in a nightmare of traffic and pollution and bad infrastructure almost as if in india at last reaching the mountains and breathing quite some good airr there despite all the cutting of grass but using a good gasoline for it yet not so good when cutting trees for my friends francesco and my new artist friend nero using the chainsaw later however breathing good air just showing the project museum to students and traveling back to the netherlands directly via the tyrol"
POLLUTION: MONTH #162
"a month spent fully in the nethelrands with some level of pollution experienced the few times i visited cities like scheveningen but in general keeping rather at home with my kids and also their mother being sick and there off an on mixing quite some many bags of concrete to finish the long garden pathway i made using old bricks and protecting myself from the thin cement but at times getting it on my working clothes also later catting the metal pieces from the previous sheds but other than that especially with a rainy weather coming not really getting exposed pollution beside for a few times activating the laser machine in the attic to produce the project museum tags and forgetting to turn on the aspirator getting the room full of a sour smell"
POLLUTION: MONTH #163
"quite some car traffic experienced still while in our dutch village especially when crossing into the more industrial area and then also traveling with the kids to italy at time stopping in very jammed petrol stations and meeting off and on some traffic particularly crossing the brenner pass and once in our mountain village breathing all the quite clean air there and only once using old petrol to cut wood with my chainsaw soon switching to a good an expensive petrol making far less fumes and using also my trimmer to open up the path to the project museum later also beginning to weld the first floor there and using a mask without aspirator getting quite intoxicated soon after using the full mask with aspirator making me breath almost entirely pure air if not for the fumes of the generator which i have anyway turned towards the outside"
POLLUTION: MONTH #164
"struggling to get some clean air while working inside the project museum with the generator making quite some fumes unable to extend the exhaustion and later taking an holiday in abruzzo with the family enjoying the fresh breeze of the seaside confronting only some traffic in more touristic beaches and when driving to rome to pick august at the airport getting stuck in quite some traffic driving through the city to visit its ancient ruins and back in the alps resuming my work at the project museum this time repainting the facade and the upper floor with linseed oil getting a bit overwhelmed by the smell and also trying to cover my face as much as possible cutting the gratings that did not feet in the floors but still generating quite a smoke"
POLLUTION: MONTH #165
"a month giving up the building of my project museum in the italian alps and taking a lot of walks in the open air with only a few days coating the museum with linseed oil and getting quite intoxicated with it also at the beginning using the air compressor powered by the generator making it more unhealthy and other than that only occasionally experiencing some traffic like when exploring bassano and later when traveling with the kids back to the netherlands"
POLLUTION: MONTH #166
"quite some traffic in our little dutch town with many scooter and motorcycles even flashing through the old town during some very sunny and ho days but then disappearing again with the bad weather setting in and generally breathing good air but when babysitting the daughter of our poor greek spanish friends having to walk from livia's school to aisha's on a rather trafficked road"
POLLUTION: MONTH #167
"still an increasing traffic in our small dutch town turning into a city with a lot of house developing projects on the west side but then experiencing less traffic with several consecutive days of rain and no longer any two wheels running around also the city center and in this weather also starting to mix a lot of concrete bags to make the floor for a garage in our backyard spending several days at first using a machine and then only with a shovel to mix hundreds of bags trying to cover my face as best as possible in the end having to wear two masks to really don't get affected by the dust and only one weekend taking a break with my family and going with them to a forest and then visiting the city of apeldoorn finding much traffic there"
POLLUTION: MONTH #168
"breathing some dust carrying hundreds of heavy cement bricks from the beginning of our block to the back of our garden but generally feeling not so disturbed about the mortar i regularly mixed to lay these brick up until they got right at the face level and there smelling a bit of the mortar but generally having to protect myself more thoroughly when cutting bricks to fit them in smaller gaps and there making quite a thin dust i always tried to also wash away especially from my camera pouch and making it much worst in the end with a soar throat and quite a flu i got from little silvester and otherwise taking nice and refreshing walks with him and experiencing some car traffic especially during a one day spent in tilburg with the family to attend mathijn concert"
POLLUTION: MONTH #169
"still working quite hard on our new garage breathing more of the mortar going up with the bricks and making the top edges in the end also plastering the outside and later the inside walls covering myself up with a proper mask but still getting to smell the additives in the cement also getting exposed to the traffic of our village walking the main road from livia's school to center and beside that taking several refreshing walks like in the amersfoort forest with the little family and in the end alone with silvester both on the east and on the west of the dike only once going with him to amsterdam to look for some second hand books and getting exposed to the traffic there"
POLLUTION: MONTH #170
"finishing off building the garage in the back of our dutch house and setting out for a journey across france finding not so much traffic on the way but with the kids walking in the suburbs of french cities and especially metz encountering a most awful traffic with also no wind to blow it away and later in italy staying in our small mountain apartment pretty much always breathing a good and clean air with our chimney working properly beside for at times making some smoke cooking or breathing the smoke of the neighbours like of old gianna gasoline based heating or of old andrea trying to heat up his house"
POLLUTION: MONTH #171
"breathing fresh air in the mountains but a rather polluted air when coming down to the northern italian plateau with no wind nor rain cleaning up the congested atmosphere of way too many cars and back in the mountains also doing some work out in the fields playing with the idea of one day build a cathedral of my project but at first experiencing a bit of traffic from the nearby road and then also from the machines i started using like my small chainsaw not really working on certain hard wood trees having to keep cutting quite some time to fall them and then using the trimmer to cut especially all the many trees on the path i made going up the project museum and on the way back in the netherlands finding not so much traffic and once in the netherlands not really moving so much only staying mostly home keeping the fireplace going and burning all the wood of the garden shed i have been demolishing at times smelling a bit of the fumes in the attic"
POLLUTION: MONTH #172
"a rather clean air in our dutch village but in the southern part experiencing quite some traffic especially during days of no wind taking for example the family for a walk to the city farm and also facing some traffic driving around looking for a van going west and east of the country and even with up north to the far less inhabited frisland breathing more of a fresh and scandinavian like air there later with some sunny days focusing very much in our garden building a little wooden house for the children and doing a lot of other small improvements in the open only a few times using the angle grinder to cut old screws making a bit of dust"
POLLUTION: MONTH #173
"quite some fresh air in our dutch town in the netherlands with also august visiting and with him facing some car pollution in the bigger cities like in rotterdam but still experiencing quite some rain cleaning up the atmosphere only twice using an angle grinder to make shorter the saddles of the children bikes making a bit of smoke and beside that only once venturing in the more industrial part of our village experiencing there the usual traffic"
POLLUTION: MONTH #174
"a month not really moving that much with a most gray and rainy weather outside and only doing a bit of carpentry work generating some dust like helping an old electrician to install lights inside our new garage or building a closet for the children other than that only facing some traffic in the usual industrial part of town but also in the southern part taking the children to the city farm with the road around the town been most trafficed in the end also traveling with our van for the first time on holiday finding quite empty roads in belgium and then a quite deserted northern part of france only experiencing heavy traffic in the ugly city of boulogne where we spent a full day with the family walking up and down the modern city"
POLLUTION: MONTH #175
"making it back from the open french landscapes in a most congested and overpopulate netherlands experiencing quite some traffic every time we made it to the outskirts of our village and later traveling smoothly to our small farm in the italian alps and there welding a shed with scrap metal using the mask with the respirator but still inhaling some fumes possibly because i did not push the mask close enough to my face and also experiencing quite some traffic meeting my old friend francesco in vicenza and while in schio with the family eating a pizza in an immigrant neighborhood but beside that breathing the fresh mountain air especially after much rain not so bothered about at times using the trimmer to cut grass"
POLLUTION: MONTH #176
"driving back to the netherlands experiencing some traffic in germany but then keeping mostly at home having to print the project museum tags at times venturing in the industry area or with the children and myrthe to the city farm finding quite much traffic congested in that part of town later also taking a small holiday with the family in limburg and in the near of dusseldorf camping in the nature and not really experiencing any traffic only back in our dutch village getting to breath all the nasty emissions of kilometers long show of old cars driving over our dike"
POLLUTION: MONTH #177
"clean air breath in our dutch village especially making it with the children to the lake only occasionally making it to the congested industrial part of town mostly to pick livia up from judo later also traveling to the nice and clean limburg city of weert and back in our village also biking with the neighbour breathing good and fresh air and also making it to the big city like utrecht and amsterdam finding them completely gentrified and sterile and without any traffic later flying with august to sardinia breathing a bit of fumes boarding the planes and experiencing some traffic driving up the island with a rented car to davide's place but in general experiencing quite a good air and a nice breeze prior making the trip back to the netherlands with the usual exposure to emissions"
POLLUTION: MONTH #178
"traveling with my sons through europe experiencing some traffic especially in germany intensified by the heat and many trucks but then having a good time at florian's place and also in switzerland breathing fresh air before making it to the overheated flat land of northern italy with a lot of traffic in the little bergamo airport and then keeping in the mountains with the clean air there welding a fence for our new parking lot behind our barn and also finishing it off with a concrete ramp always protecting my mouth and nose at the project museum also beginning to polish the inner pixels prior to positioning the tags with glue getting a throat pain but despite that taking nice and refreshing walks avoiding the heat and keeping with the family high up"
POLLUTION: MONTH #179
"a month working hard on the mountain museum welding and grinding the floors but also doing trimming the wild grass around it and back in our contrada still cutting some of the trees that nero never picke up but generally with quite a bad and rainy weather often keeping with the family also going for walks like with little livia on top of the pasubio mount and also making it to the sea side and to the lavarone lake and breathing quite a good air back up the museum only attaching tags"
POLLUTION: MONTH #180
"wrapping up with my work in the mountains using the chainsaw to cut in pieces the trees nero never came to pick up and later spending days with my children at the project museum finishing to oil the tags i glued with a constant breeze removing most of the smell finally traveling back up north stopping with my children up on the fern pass for a few wonderful days with a most clean and pure air also not really finding so much traffic traveling through the never ending germany and back home spending time with my old friend davide coming for a visit trying to be as much as possible in the nature canoeing and biking and generally breathing good air but on the last day going to the polluted and crowded tilburg before taking him to the airport and towards the end of the month going to camp in a swampy and full of mosquitoes place on the german boarder only finding some traffic on the way back trying to visit the beautiful but crowded natural reserve north of rheden"