FRIENDS: MONTH #145
"italian researcher i met by accident walking in boston later making use of her apartment for an exhibition"
FRIENDS: MONTH #146
"spanish graffiti artist and surfer who facilitated my only exhibition in the united states even though i was completely broke and could only print a few of my works out using the university printer"
FRIENDS: MONTH #147
"one of my american neighbour who was half northern italian and dreamed of leaving the states to make it back to the old continent in the end volunteering to teach him the language but being incapable to do so with his children making a mess every time"
FRIENDS: MONTH #148
"an american neighbour who was had sicilian grandfather and lived in a house filled with holes made by squirrels at times making it there with my family to eat brunch together also going for a section in her chiropractic studio and feeling much better later on despite her being very light and gentle"
FRIENDS: MONTH #149
"pictures of paul a cool american researcher with also some italian blood getting to hike with him a few times on the franconian ridge north of boston"
FRIENDS: MONTH #150
"pictures of an american retired man who made it nice for us in boston talking me and my family out to eat the local fish and out for a sailing tour also planning to take me to fly with his small vehicle despite his health issues we made him collapse several times"
FRIENDS: MONTH #151
"pictures of my sister's only daughter with whom i hanged out ery little and only when she was a kid after colliding with my family especially on the issue of how to educate children without being oppressive"
FRIENDS: MONTH #152
"pictures of my best friend's daughter gemma i actually gave the name to and seeing her growing through the years as a thorough and intelligent girl visiting her and her parents both in the city where they lived as well as in my native highland"
FRIENDS: MONTH #153
"pictures of my father's cousin who kept a shop in my native town going to visit him every time i made it there until the al town became invaded with tourists and i stopped going always however being quite fascinated about his determination like going almost daily up the mountains and making hundreds of paintings of the few traditional houses the war have spared also sharing his dislike for the sort of gentrification that tourism has brought about"
FRIENDS: MONTH #154
"pictures of my oldest son's neighbour when he lived in a fancy neighborhood in stockholm for rich people and playing often with him and my son also given he only lived with his finnish mother and his sister and i barely saw his father"
FRIENDS: MONTH #155
"pictures of a somali kid who was in the same class of my oldest son at the time he lived in a very upper class neighborhood while my son and him lived in the only compound with social apartment sand often playing soccer with him and his brother although his family was conservative and didn't seem to like our getting together"
FRIENDS: MONTH #156
"picture of a talented dutch student i had when teaching at the stockholm design college facilitating many classes and workshops for her and her classmates"
FRIENDS: MONTH #157
"picture of a gambian guy i rescued from his uncle who kept him living in a closet and having a good time together until he turned into the wrong type of friendships beginning to end up in trouble"
FRIENDS: MONTH #158
"pictures of ivan a colombina student of mine with whom we tried to make a small studio together always seeing him with different girls and in the end losing track of him"
FRIENDS: MONTH #159
"pictures of myrthe my partner already eight years into my project and at first keeping up a distant relationship for years until we finally settled together in a small dutch village building up a cute family finding it easier for her to keep working and myself taking care of the kids and the household experiencing often times myrthe's generosity especially after the pandemic from which moment she began working very hard becoming a course leader despite her very low ambitions in the end sadly getting a burn out"
FRIENDS: MONTH #160
"picture of my girlfriend's father having always a pretty good relation with him talking about carpentry and showing him my work in the mountains and often having him over to visit us with the children being very happy to hang out with him"
FRIENDS: MONTH #161
"pictures of my partner's oldest nephew getting to babysit him occasionally when he was small and treating him a bit like my oldest son also later in the mountains when he came with his family for a visit"
FRIENDS: MONTH #162
"pictures of henrik an artist i collaborated with for a few events while i was living in stockholm but wanted to pursue my work in the wild"
FRIENDS: MONTH #163
"pictures of a nice mexican guy i met while we both did our doctorate and taking my time to show him and his feelo students stockholm when they came to for a visit in london and also later meeting him in london getting to know how much he struggled to do his doctorate there with funding"
FRIENDS: MONTH #164
"pictures of a family friend who was a doctor and we often had him for dinner not sharing in the end his middle class mentality with his manias for hunting and going on a yacht"
FRIENDS: MONTH #165
"pictures of the wife of my partner's oldest brother living in maastricht"
FRIENDS: MONTH #166
"pictures of my partner's older brother a doctor living a nice life in the near of maastricht where we occasionally visited him"
FRIENDS: MONTH #167
"pictures of my partner's younger brother an architect living in utrecht meeting him at times there but also in the mountains where he came to visit with his family"
FRIENDS: MONTH #168
"pictures of my partner's mother with whom i was in good terms until the relationship between her and her daughter foroze"
FRIENDS: MONTH #169
"pictures of antonio the son of my father's cousin getting to meet him through the years in our native highland where he also ran a pub and feeling quite close to him as one of the very few people from my father's family i was allowed to keep a relationship with playing in his nice house when we were little always finding him quite fun and full of jokes breaking eggs on his forehead and being one of the first to use computers and even make art with is being able to use ascii digits to make a portrait of his grandfather always later showing him my work with my paintings and my performances finding him very interested until a guy drinking in his pub broke a bottle in his head and he got more secluded but then after the death of his mother finding him with a girlfriend and even a baby getting shocked of the news he shot himself when the little one was still small"
FRIENDS: MONTH #170
"pictures of my dear elementary school teacher and relative mariagrazia who suffered a lot as a mother trying to have children but always within a few years always having to bury them with some kind of genetic disease killing time and in her finding a very encouraging soul from the beginning to pursue my creativity even getting me to be awarded the best price for a drawing i made about the war suddenly having to depart from her to follow my mother and her new partner to a city down the mountains"
FRIENDS: MONTH #171
"pictures of massimiliano a genius in mathematics i met in stockholm often visiting him at his apartment in the center of the city"
FRIENDS: MONTH #172
"pictures of a sicilian guy who came to live in my tiny swedish apartment with his czech girlfriend getting more and more into repairing the bikes he found abandoned but later turning completely devastated after his girlfriend left him with his parents having to come to bring him back home"
FRIENDS: MONTH #173
"pictures of gary a nice american writer i met at the time he was organizing conferences for people also doing self-tracking and getting to become from the beginning one of his favorite examples until he made these conferences too much about wealth"
FRIENDS: MONTH #174
""pictures of a good friend of my partner who i met in sweden where she also came to study until i moved with my partner in a small dutch village and she also came with her swedish boyfriend and kids"
FRIENDS: MONTH #175
"pictures of the son of my girlfriend's older brother growing into a nice boy in a well-off part of maastricht and playing very nicely with our kids mostly during birthday parties"
FRIENDS: MONTH #176
"picture the firs daughter of my partner's younger brother meeting her quite often at birthdays and family reunions always quite fascinated her resemblance with my daughter with whom she played very nicely"
FRIENDS: MONTH #177
"the first girlfriend of my partner's father who lived in the united states and later settled in breda talking to her mostly during birthdays but also hosting her in the mountains although she did not really like it there"
FRIENDS: MONTH #178
"pictures of a very cool danish and norwegian artist who even came to visit me in the mountains after a girl he loved abandoned him and feeling most fascinated about his living in a studio and also making art projects making large platform on the stockholm waters to regain public domain from the swedish state"
FRIENDS: MONTH #179
"pictures of a nice italian student i hoste in my little apartment in sweden talking some excursions with him and his friends and getting to know about his career as a basketball player"
FRIENDS: MONTH #180
"pictures of the daughter of my partner's big brother taken through the years with her being quite wild to begin with turning into a little woman"