MATRICES: MONTH #001
"after much time trying to figure out how to import the bitmap file with twelve tags at the time assemble finding a way to do so through a free software and laser printing the tags on a sunny spring day after returning to italy and being convinced to follow such method"
MATRICES: MONTH #002
"stretching the day while working outside making the path in the garden of our dutch house and producing evry hour a new dozen tags"
MATRICES: MONTH #003
"lasering this batch whike with the children not really happy and a bit on a fighting mode with one another putting them to bed at last and manafing to keep up with the lasering"
MATRICES: MONTH #004
"early morning lasering just on time before myrthe went to work and i had yo step in with the children with the machine still working fine despite a bit of dust not absorbed by the fan kept low not too make too much noise"
MATRICES: MONTH #005
"lasering this batch of tags while demolishing with my youngest son outside the former floor of the metal workshop i set up to produce the textures of the project museum and with him every hour going up to put more tags in the machine"
MATRICES: MONTH #006
"with the kids screaming and fighting trying to pacify them with some juice and a documentary on baby tigers and managing this batch waiting for their mother to come back"
MATRICES: MONTH #007
"late in the evening lasering of this batch of tags with the children asleep and myself getting a bit of an headache from the machine and the fan constant noise"
MATRICES: MONTH #008
"lasering this batch while taking livia to school and then keeping with little silvester in the attic both wearing ear protections for the machine noise"
MATRICES: MONTH #009
"managing to laser this batch with my daughter bringing her spanish greek friend home and running up and down while taking care of the children"
MATRICES: MONTH #010
"with my girlfriend sick and having to take care of the children alone having to hurry with cleaning the house and feeding everyone to have some time to put new batches of aluminium tags in the laser machine"
MATRICES: MONTH #011
"with myrthe still in bed sick working out in the garden meanyime building a little house for the children while pausing hourly to change the plates in the laser machine"
MATRICES: MONTH #012
"still cooking and dealing with the children bringing them out as much as possible while regularly making it inside to put the last batch making up the entire photo project almost now having a clock within me telling me almost precisely the right time to make it to the attic"
MATRICES: MONTH #013
"a very hot day with myrthe still sick and myself having to take care of the children alone lasering this first batch of my dreams before and after taking them to swim at the old mine by the river"
MATRICES: MONTH #014
"trying to have some time to keep up with making the path in our garden but having to schedule it well with the mixing of the concrete i do with a shovel in the wheelbarrow and the running up to the attic to switch plates in the laser machine"
MATRICES: MONTH #015
"managing this batch now with my youngest son sick with fever laying on the sofa and also while struggling to update the softwares i use for my project after they stopped running in my new operating system"
MATRICES: MONTH #016
"now also with my daughter being sick running up and down the house to assist her and to change plates in the machine finding them a little tilted due to the accumulated dust"
MATRICES: MONTH #017
"cleaning up the dust from the machine bed getting the plates flat again but consuming quite a lot my nails pealing off the protective layer from the egalized side at last stopping to print with my sick family having to rest"
MATRICES: MONTH #018
"managing this batch late in the evening while conceiving an idea to present half of the tags in a smaller version of the cube in paris still however feeling under some pressure with all my family still with fever and vomiting"
MATRICES: MONTH #019
"printing this batch while finishing a proposal to exhibit the very tags in paris with the attic getting extremely hot with an unusual heat outside"
MATRICES: MONTH #020
"still with the family quite sick managing this batch without really pushing it and at times leaving the machine on without any lasering to do not to upset myrthe who likely wishes me to be next to her during her sickness"
MATRICES: MONTH #021
"traveling with silvester to scheveningen to deliver a sculpture of an italian friend to a museum there and spending some time in the amusement park like city before returning home and having some time to laser print this batch in the meantime also taking care of livia and bringing her out to the river after her long sickness"
MATRICES: MONTH #022
"laser printing this batch with myrthe falling ill again unable to take care of the children and trying to keep them away from her outside while also running up and down to put new aluminium plates to be lasered in the machine"
MATRICES: MONTH #023
"with still the family sick and the kids very much in a bad mood managing this batch also cleaning the machine bed and being afraid it could be compromised by a huge syorm hitting our village"
MATRICES: MONTH #024
"taking myrthe and the kids for a walk after a slow recovery managing to do some laser printing in between but then ending up in a cafe a bit against my wheel feeling urged to go home to put new plates"
MATRICES: MONTH #025
"with my youngest falling back sick lasering this first batch of the song record work keeping in the attic drawing and occasionally calling with my oldest son august whobis noy going to be able to help me this summer and with the architect and the metal supplier to see how to build the floors inside the cube to reach the tags far above"
MATRICES: MONTH #026
"batch executed with now also my daughter falling back sick and having to pick her up at her best friend while letting the machine laser more tags until dusk when i turned it off for some peace"
MATRICES: MONTH #027
"managing to resize all the images of the patterns so that i don't have to resize them individually in the vector program and becoming faster in setting the new plates to print also managing to save the settings in the machine interface speeding up the job and having more time to be with my convalescent family"
MATRICES: MONTH #028
"lasering this batch in quite a hard day with the whole family back sick after trying ti bring them out to the nearby family farm and noticing how less powerful the laser is than the one i have tested earlier resulting in a much whiter bleach"
MATRICES: MONTH #029
"taking my time to do this batch of tags after spending the day at the waal river and only upon returning lasering while cooking and later while mixing concrete outside for my garden project"
MATRICES: MONTH #030
"with myrthe working from home after her recovery having to ask her to turn the machine off and then having to wait for her to finish her work to start lasering again"
MATRICES: MONTH #031
"with both the kids home managing to entertain them and even to bring them out to the market while lasering this one batch being quite sattisfied in the end with the contrast and the work flow"
MATRICES: MONTH #032
"having quite some time to print this batch with myrthe home from work taking care of the children and myself just wearing ear protections and updating the fpundation website"
MATRICES: MONTH #033
"with the family still sick and sleeping managing this other batch yet noticing some scratches on the expensive aluminium but either way printing on the equalized side"
MATRICES: MONTH #034
"offering the machine to a gay local artist to test his drawings on leather and having to pause the whole production with the actual leather burning in the machine but the resuming it and managing a whole batch with the children outaide with their mother to meet their greek spanish friend"
MATRICES: MONTH #035
"printing this batch just on time before and after taking the family for a walk outside despite livia and silvester being sick and weak"
MATRICES: MONTH #036
"working outside dismantling the old floor of the metal workshop with livia playing on my side and silvester and myrthe sick in bed managing also to talk to august on the phone while running up and down to change metal plates in the machine"