ACTIONS: MONTH #001
"a month started in my native village in the mountains photographing mostly utensils used for eating both at my mother's place but also at restaurants and also photographing the equipment used for skiing and walking on the snow with my girlfriend as well as with my parents japanese dog before making it back to stockholm living in some cheap apartment in the suburb and working at the interactive institute in town at a wearable prototype to photograph and label the object of my right hand in real time but also spending quite some time renovating the old house in my girlfriend's family farm and following her directions finding it fun at first but soon quite tedious for her perfectionism having to dismantle her father motorcycle garage there and remove all the nails and gasoline spots to build a kitchen"
ACTIONS: MONTH #002
"spending most of the month to begin with in the ugly stockholm suburb of varby gard with however quite a beautiful nature there going to run a few times with my girlfriend in the frozen landscape and beside going often to the swimming pool and in the weekend to renovate my girlfriend's old farm in the way she tells me to using a lot of machines i am not so fond of and during the week working at the interactive institute in the city to build a prototype to capture and organize the photos of the right hand in real time beside spending the last part of the month in a coastal city in kenya using mostly the utensils from the buffet there"
ACTIONS: MONTH #003
"a month started at my parents after coming back from kenya and trying to spend some time with my old grandfather using some of his utensils especially while eating together and then making it back to sweden spending a lot of time at the interactive institute in stockholm building my wearable prototype but also helping another artist to build hers and regularly in the weekend going at my girlfriend's farm to renovate it but also helping her father to fetch wood in the forest using his heavy chainsaws"
ACTIONS: MONTH #004
"a month started out learning how to farm and seriously preparing a large field to cultivate my vegetables removing all the grass by hand and also planting in advance the seeds and during the week working in stockholm at my wearable prototype before going to italy to a conference to present my work and returning to sweden once again keeping up the renovation of my girlfriend's family house in her parents farm and with them also going for an holiday in sicily talking using not so many objects while traveling other than the utensils used in restaurants and the key of our rented car and later making back to my mother in vicenza before driving with liselott all the way back to uppsala"
ACTIONS: MONTH #005
"a month working very hard farming the land in liselott's family farm but also following her instructions to finish renovating the kitchen in the old house there and scratching the floor from all the gasoline and oil spots left by her father's motorcycles before beginning to mix our own colours to paint and during the week working still very hard on the electronics of my wearable prototype spending the middle of the week on the west coast of sweden attending the last month of my master program editing my thesis and living at the school making it to the swimming pool to train but also to wash myself"
ACTIONS: MONTH #006
"a month started in gothenburg graduating there from my master program and spending a couple of days living in the school before going back to stockholm and enjoying a sunny period often swimming out door with now liselott wanting to have a kid from me and spending quite some time together also renovating her country house using heavy machines to get all her father's motorcycle oil out of the old wooden floor and painting the walls mixing our own colours as well as doing some farming feeling depressed with some bad gray weather setting in and trying to run especially to the nearby island of lidingo to recover my energy also at last celebrating a nice midsummer at liselott's family farm this time inviting a lot of my university friends like brian from the states and blanca from mexico playing all the traditional games"
ACTIONS: MONTH #007
"a month working hard on my girlfriend's farm in the near of uppsala both looking after the cows bringing them over to the farm to drink in the evening and also taking care of my vegetable garden watering it regularly renovating the potato basement under the barn awaiting the potato harvest and going occasionally to the forest to pick blueberries especially for my birthday cake eating at times at my girlfriend's parents but several times baking my own bread and cooking our own food"
ACTIONS: MONTH #008
"a month working really hard to begin with in the swedish countryside mostly looking after my vegetable garden but then leaving it to go for a few weeks to my native highland and there mostly biking and hanging out with my old friends and family using many keys to open doors and cars at last going back to sweden and finding rather dark already and loosing up the vibe of the summer but still spending the last days of the months in the newly renovated cabin"
ACTIONS: MONTH #009
"month started out at my girlfriend's farm cutting wood for her father with quite a dangerous sewing machine and lasting several days filling up the deposit and taking care of the apple trees giving some of the fallen apples to the cows while picking several kilos to make juice as well as making my own jam picking lingonberries in the forest keeping them raw and only mixing them with sugar to then travel to gothenburg where i began teaching art at the university there and renting a room from my african swiss friend lalya gaye and mostly teaching a nice crowd of international students and then commuting back to the east coast and getting back on the farm project starting to renovate the old windows before traveling once again back to the west coast and from there reaching my great friend davide in oslo with his canadian girlfriend kristy trinier spending our time at the house of a crazy norwegian painter going half naked around the house filled with young kitties and an old guy painting with his penis on a canvas"
ACTIONS: MONTH #010
"back from norway now still traveling from west to east sweden several times stopping in our uppsala farm for more harvesting of both vegetables in my garden as well as apples and mushrooms also trying to dry the latter and labeling every morning my pictures with a pocket pc with a program designed by liselott and traveling almost weekly over one thousand kilometers by train to hold workshops in gothenburg with some amazing international students sleeping still at lalya and doing mostly cooking there but also going often to swim still not using so many objects especially when commuting"
ACTIONS: MONTH #011
"still in sweden photographing the usual objects both while in stockholm cooking and doing computer work but also while in gothenburg teaching my international students and in the weekend always making it to our uppsala farm to keep up renovating but also taking advantage of the not so cold weather to still plant dome apple trees before setting off a long journey by car to italy to sell my car and get a van with the help of my parents who managed to sold my old one and staying in italy trying also to keep as much as possible with my grandfather using several tools to go in and out the many doors of his and my mother's apartment but also managing to go for a swim there and then really upsetting my mother having turned down an offer from my uncle to work for his factory and promptly leaving with the new van to sweden to get back to the countryside and my work as well as my morning working with the updating of my project characterized by many computer mouses"
ACTIONS: MONTH #012
"a month commuting a lot by train from the east to the west coast of sweden teaching in gothenburg but also finding the time to swim and doing quite some computer work back in stockholm starting to also prepare some animations with my right hand photos and only once going to our farm in uppsala going to italy for the holidays instead and staying at my mother both in vicenza and on my native highland before returning to sweden with my girlfriend quite pregnant taking a trip with her to the swedish mountains sleeping and eating in our new van"
ACTIONS: MONTH #013
"with my girlfriend liselott highly pregnant at first living in our van in the swedish mountains and experiencing some heavy snowfalls getting us stuck with meters of snow surrounding us but eventually being dragged out by a local swed with the help of a somi and mostly using limited amount of objects inside the van before returning to our farm in uppsala preparing for an exhibition manually making animations of the objects i used according to the frequency and having to count the number of frames with a manual device but also beginning to cut by hand all the photos of the right hand i took in the past year and also commuting to gothenburg once to teach and back on the east coast living both in the farm as well as in our stockholm apartment and in the farm doing mostly work in the forest cutting and sawing wood mostly by hand avoiding chainsaws"
ACTIONS: MONTH #014
"living now with my parents-in-law in the uppsala farm having had rented our stockholm apartment waiting for august to be born and working hard on my upcoming performance in the corridor of the stockholm art and design academy konstfack cutting the pictures of my right hand i later began placing on the corridor floor and also building a large rotating clock connected to a screen showing all the photos of the objects used by the right hand according to their frequency of use and still making it to the swimming pool to train as also commuting to gothenburg to teach before liselott and i got in a fight with her father as he decide to cut down the family forest after his mother died and as a protest living in the van behind the academy where i started my performance in the middle of the winter with much snow and also gypsies trying to steal the van"
ACTIONS: MONTH #015
"still living in the van with my swedish girlfriend highly pregnant and striking such a miserable picture that we even got free bananas at a gas station and using not so many tools to cook and mostly washing ourselves in public swimming pool in the immigrant neighborhoods in the south of stockholm also proceeding with my performance laying the many thousands small photos of my right hand on the floor of the art academy mostly seating on the ground and not using so many objects but in the end vacuum cleaning the whole installation after photographing it and finally reconciling with our parents-in-law despite my girlfriend being still quite upset with her mother and going out in the forest with my father-in-law to pick dead trees with much snow finally also getting liselott ready to go to the hospital and there witnessing the birth of a marvelous son we named august and using some objects such as cutting his umbilical cord and filing his long nails spending the night in the hospital before going back to the farm witnessing a sudden spring and the melting of the snow and resuming then my renovation of our summer house replacing the rot wood under the window of august future room and trying to do things in a traditional manner using moss and mud to isolate with my brother-in-law making much fun of me"
ACTIONS: MONTH #016
"a peaceful month with the birth of august now having some weeks off and taking advantage of the nice spring to keep up with the renovation of our cottage in liselott's farm focusing still on august's future room but also demolishing the old veranda and building a table where to wash the dishes outside finally also occasionally commuting to gothenburg to lecture and then quickly returning to uppsala via enkoping taking a slow train and not using many objects during the commuting period however spending quite some time in the morning writing down my dreams on paper and also labeling one by one all my pictures and towards the end celebrating with liselott's family several birthdays and then setting up a bonfire generally also starting to use several objects with little august such as giving him the pacifier"
ACTIONS: MONTH #017
"in the middle of the spring now finishing off to restore the rotten wall under the window of august's future bedroom in the countryside and also renovating the actual window and doing quite a lot of cultivating in my vegetable garden but also planting some fruit trees like a plum tree with august's placenta underneath it and also spending quite some time with the little boy putting him to sleep with the pacifier but also playing a small silver bell to him and using the cream for his butt before taking some small journeys together in our van to his mother's friends in stockholm and later to the master program where i teach in gothenburg always using fewer objects in the days i commute"
ACTIONS: MONTH #018
"back from teaching in gothenburg attending my students graduation show there taking my family along with our camper resuming the countryside work on my vegetable garden and painting and fixing our summer house both inside and outside but also working on some photo panels to bring to a gallery in florence run by my american curator friend jason waite and beside that keeping up the usual life often eating the swedish food of my mother-in-law using several cheese knives and later in the month playing all the viking midsummer games with also my international students coming to visit"
ACTIONS: MONTH #019
"quite a busy month at first taking care of our countryside house also trying to learn how to use the sickle to cut the grass and spending the evening there using candles in the evening but mostly eating my parents' in law at last going briefly to florence for a show organized by my american curator friend jason waite and exhibiting some photos there but also a video of life in sweden using not so many objects in general and mostly eating in cheap restaurants with jason who bought my pictures to finance my journey and then back in sweden going right away to camp in the beautiful island of gotland with liselott and little august keeping on the shore of a cute sandy beach in the east of the island using mostly tools to cook but also to take care of our son and after spending a period in our countryside house later making it to my parents' place in vicenza and finally in my native town in the alps to show august to my grandfather bruno and photographing for these and similar occasions the cameras i used beside for the many utensils used at dinner with friends and with my parents"
ACTIONS: MONTH #020
"in my native mountains to begin with living the good life with an amazing weather and my little son august getting baptized also hosting my swedish relative there and taking them on excursions but also biking with my stepfather and his friends taking several pictures with other cameras and mostly using many objects eating at my mother and out before returning to the humble life in sweden looking after my garden and beginning some harvesting but also picking berries in the forest and taking care of my son but also of my project using also a pocket pc to digitize my dreams after writing them on paper and later taking my international students for a trip all the way across europe to see the biennial in venice and with them living in campsites and generally using not so many objects"
ACTIONS: MONTH #021
"in austria with my students to begin with attending an electronic art festival in linz and sleeping in my camper prior returning to our swedish farm and beginning to harvest the vegetables from my harvest especially potatoes but also beginning to take care much more of my son playing with him and changing very often his diaper putting the zinc based but cream and beside also modifying the camera i take the photos of the objects i use making it more embedded to my hand traveling also to the other side of sweden to do my teaching and throughout the month making it regularly to the swimming pool to train also with my son along"
ACTIONS: MONTH #022
"moving back to our small stockholm apartment we had rented out for the first six months of little august's life and feeling weird about having him in such small environment getting used to life there still however going to the countryside to harvest mostly root fruits from my vegetable garden and also beginning one year as a guest at the royal college of art in stockholm supposing to do digital art but turning to print making and learning the craft of etching the photos of my right hand into plates i later used for archival prints using several new tools but also once back in our small apartment feeding august more and more real food as well the vegetables for my garden also playing with him with toys and small bells as well often going to the swimming pool to train and commute making it also to gothenburg to teach only occasionally at last in fact traveling to my parents in italy with both liselott and august and together making it to the canaries islands for a small holiday together"
ACTIONS: MONTH #023
"a month started at the canaries with my parents biking with my stepfather occasionally in the high mountains but feeling the cold distance of my sisters with my son and her mother trying to keep also with them eating at the buffet and going to the beach but at last returning to italy trying to spend some time with my old grandfather bruno there eating breakfast together and photographing for the last times his tea cups that accompanied my childhood and then back in sweden and spending my time teaching on the west coast and working in the copper graphic workshop in the capitol making more progress with the presentation of my archival prints but also going often to the swimming pool photographing shampoos and hair brushes trying not to upset anyone around me in the changing room and at home in our tiny apartment building with wood a loft bed so as to save space and taking care of my young son feeding him and changing his diapers and playing with the weather now being gray and cold not really going to the countryside"
ACTIONS: MONTH #024
"winter month in sweden taking quite many photos of my right hand in dark conditions and manually adjusting them showing me increasingly taking care of my son now with also his first teeth to brush and making use of my garden vegetables to also cook meals to him while keeping up my work at the copper graphic workshop at the royal college of art finally finding the month layout format i late stuck to and also in the apartment doing small renovation work building up our bulk bed and other furniture for christmas going first at my parents-in-law in the family farm not really doing so much work with quite some snow and cold weather out going however to the forest to cut some trees and at last traveling to my aunt francesca below my native mountains not willing to spend time with my mother with whom i got yet in another fight"
ACTIONS: MONTH #025
"a month to begin with spent at my zia fancesca in bassano using not many tools with her and my cousin vanessa taking care of us and also doing small excursions traveling to bologna and to padua to meet my aunts taking good care of august feeding him daily and beginning to take care of him far more than his mother at last returning to sweden and driving my international students to the swedish alps in the middle of a snow storm for a landart workshop i organized for them doing quite some cooking for the whole of us but also some exploration of the landscape outside our cabin particularly searching for a mexican student who got lost and then back in stockholm spending quite some time with little august again feeding him and changing him and playing together more and more but also spending a bit of time in our farm in the countryside mostly attending dinners with my swedish relatives and back in stockholm trying to figure ways out to frame my prints in the art academy glass workshop"
ACTIONS: MONTH #026
"a month having sold my van for very little money now fully concentrated both on the caring of august in the mornings and in the printing of my pictures in the afternoon biking often to the copper graphic workshop in the small island of skeppsholmen despite the winter weather and also making it to the swimming pool quite regularly and only once commuting to gothenburg to teach and beside doing minor home improvements in our tiny stockholm apartment"
ACTIONS: MONTH #027
"taking short trip to italy staying at my parents there but also with my old grandfather to later resume my usual life in stockholm taking care of august in the morning but also in the evening feeding him and changing his diapers and playing together only to work at the copper graphic workshop in the afternoons and never really going to the countryside anymore despite being august birthday deciding to celebrate it in our small apartment taking photos and playing with the other kids invited to it going occasionally also to gothenburg to teach undertaking the long commutes by train and using far less objects during these days cooking less and not having to take care of little august"
ACTIONS: MONTH #028
"a month with some nice weather and the spring coming after a long winter now also able to be quite much outside with august seeing him growing quite fast and play more and more with him and also cooking for him making bread myself and going to england together for one of his mother conferences using many tools mostly at the hotel buffet and back in stockholm still spending much time with august but also going to the art academy to keep up the archival prints of my right hand pictures in month layouts and going twice to gothenburg to teach but still finding the time to make it after a long time to the countryside to begin the pruning of the many apple trees there"
ACTIONS: MONTH #029
"with the spring now keeping up my work at the copper graphic workshop at stockholm royal college of art but then taking a trip to england with the family following liselott to a conference and strolling around cambridge with august also making it to london before returning to sweden and there taking advantage of some nice days to prepare my vegetable garden having at times to commute to gothenburg to teach and while in stockholm also beginning to build a prototype for my upcoming exhibition in austria beside spending quite some time with august playing and feeding him but also taking many walks together"
ACTIONS: MONTH #030
"a month still with the summer not really coming out and spending much time with august playing and feeding him and trying to get him in nature every time the weather allowed it and swimming quite often also outside before hosting my curator friend jason also fed up with the swedish weather and later going to the countryside taking care of the small plants of my vegetable garden and later attending the many celebrations around the swedish midsummer living now in the cottage i have renovated and having to turn the fire on with the weather keeping on being cold"
ACTIONS: MONTH #031
"feeling the swedish summer now going with my son to his great grandfather in his lake cabin and trying to fish there to then return to the grandparents farm and taking care of my vegetable garden but also beginning to pain red the white house of the now dead great grandmother also using a lift to reach the top parts and getting stuck with no electricity for a long time in the air and in the free time picking blueberries in the forest and playing with my son taking care of him during meals in the end also making the great mistake to go visit my parents back in the alps finding there a very cold reception and struggling to take care of august all alone"
ACTIONS: MONTH #032
"a terrible time spent in my native highland in italy with bad weather and my kid to take care of and my parents very cold and unwilling to give me a hand yet trying to be very playful with august using many toys and taking a few walks before returning to sweden and taking care a bit of my vegetable and there before preparing to go to austria for an exhibition and once there spending my time living in a hotel and setting up the photos of my right hand in the museum using a few tools but mostly photographing the tools used during the breakfast buffet"
ACTIONS: MONTH #033
"still in austria for some days presenting my exhibition there and living in a hotel using not so many tools but for eating and drinking during the many socializing events but also biking and exploring the region before making it back to sweden and there spending much time with little august playing together and using many different toys and also teaching in gothenburg and spending some time in our farm in uppsala harvesting vegetables in the end setting up an exhibition in a small gallery in stockholm presenting there some hand printed version of my right hand prints"
ACTIONS: MONTH #034
"resuming our normal life in sweden in our small stockholm apartment mostly playing with little august and going out with still some sunny weather also in the countryside picking at times mushrooms and lingon berries but mostly fixing up the land and doing the last harvesting also traveling mostly to gothenburg to teach but also for a few days following liselott to a conference up north and spending some beautiful days there with little august often using my pocket knife to carve small sticks for him"
ACTIONS: MONTH #035
"a super regular month spent mostly in stockholm using mostly quite some domestic tools and going out at friends a few times going quite regularly to gothenburg to teach and spending not so much time with my little august going out with him in nature when the weather allows it and using some toys to play together back home and very seldom going to the countryside and not for farming nor renovating but just to stroll around with august"
ACTIONS: MONTH #036
"a month still commuting to gothenburg to teach there using not so many tools but still trying to cook with other students while in the university building and back in stockholm having a bit of a formal life going occasionally to swim but only later during the christmas break having really a more cheerful time in the countryside playing with little august but also doing renovation work and starting to prune the apple trees"