ACTIONS: MONTH #109
"in krakow almost half of the first month in jacek's family house feeling a bit frustrated of too much socializing and thus setting off doing grocery and cooking and washing my clothes but also making myself look nice but then turning hard into my project and production of my first drawing books spending much time at the print shop fixing up files with my own laptop and preparing models of along banner of faces for a possible exhibition prior moving back to stockholm where i also there do grocery and cooking for my kid and start commuting quite a lot using the blue card to access the public transport but also now using much my phone to annotate not only ideas but things i find interesting in the many texts i have to read which i try to compensate now getting back to my usual routine of also analogue producing my drawings and the painting i did not accomplish for long after traveling anyhow ending up doing quite many office routines like printing and stapling and organizing the mass of papers from the various mandatory courses"
ACTIONS: MONTH #110
"a period started with a rediscovering of the pleasure of solitude and quite an enforcement by going out like a hunter living in the extreme yet bright nature lighting fires and cooking but then much routing stuff and gray weather at the university and to my son's place where i often sleep over and we try to do things in the captivation of the small apartment such as building a shelf till at last i made up my mind about all these savings and spent them to restructure my apartment so that i can only live in my room and rent out the rest thus we went getting all the wood and bathroom and kitchen stuff to rebuild my room and a separation wall with doors but also not forgetting my showroom of my exhibition which i then start assembling doing much final work and breaking with the inertia of too much intellectualizing at the university"
ACTIONS: MONTH #111
"it took me sometime to get this photo panel accomplished due to the new computer i have bought and all the work i had to do to reconfigure my tools to the new system it operates but nonetheless it was not a too hard task and it somewhat characterizes my last few months in which i have invested a lot on new equipment particularly for the construction of my studio room making two independent living units out of my apartment and thus sharing for now my mantel with my african friend lamin and having him also to help me setting up the wall construction although he has been sawing directly on the wall and i had to latter sandpaper it and thus deciding to do things more by myself and with time also setting up the door frames with stucco and pausing my work to do actual work at the university and being with august to still enjoy the sunny winter and barbecue outside but finally going to a conference in berlin and using more buffet utensils and much my film camera to photograph new acquaintances and mostly film"
ACTIONS: MONTH #112
"a month of spring going much down with all my carpentering work and traveling for easter holiday to my family in italy there not doing much work but shop clothes with my mom and play much with my small nephew anna which i start really to like and then a weekend of love and total relaxation with my beloved myrthe being much taken care of by her sweet hands to then start teaching to more than sixty students at the university and there using whiteboard markers but also much my metro card to commute to my son with who i have also played particularly in the science museum followed by another week with my girlfriend in the netherlands relaxing and lastly in new england where one weekend was spent pruning trees and cleaning up my greek friend and his boyfriend land down a creek in vermont aside for heavy filming in my old city of cambridge"
ACTIONS: MONTH #113
"a day started in the states doing some domestic work at panagiotis apartment in cambridge like cooking and laundry but mostly being on the road and in fact being quite homey in jason's apartment in brooklin to then go back to sweden and doing much cleaning work in the house before myrthe's first visit to stockholm and really almost not photographing and doing barely nothing to photograph with her august around but just taking a sort of a sabbath and enjoying our love together to then teach a few classes with a lot of electronic stuff show to three groups of students and regaining my active mood with drawings but also much cleaning in liselott apartment before coming to visit myrthe again in utrecht and taking it super easy after a period of stress"
ACTIONS: MONTH #114
"a month of alternated intense work and relaxation going with myrthe to madrid and doing a lot of walking and filming and then being back in sweden doing almost no activity while attending the department's conference yet slowly and later being with august in my apartment and kicking lamin how to have a period together just with my kid while fixing the floors lamin has scratched and fixing the bed so that i can sleep there with both august and myrthe when she comes to visit in the future after which i spent some time with jacek also walking and playing some tennis to then later work really hard again on the apartment and finally went over to myrthe in utrecht mostly being in her room working on my laptop with jason who came to network here and waiting for the bad weather to stop"
ACTIONS: MONTH #115
"a month started in the netherlands where i have worked hard on my website making the entire archive available on the internet but also now got quite into cooking at myrthe's place and doing the dishes or having to spray deodorant or turning on a perfume candle when using the bathroom we share with her roommate but beside also traveling with myrthe doing quite a few biking excursions and picnics with filming with cameras and typing ideas on my phone and one day even feeding her little nephew as i used to do with august to then later attend a summer school in england and don't much then seating and listening but still trying to work on myWebsite and wake up really early to do some filming about my documentation methods while exploring the surrounding and using several utensils for the buffet at breakfast and in the evening to then go back shortly to utrecht and pickup august in sweden to go at the lignano seaside in north east italy where i started using heavily sun lotions and after sun and shampoos and had many keys to use to open both my place and my mother's place and cellar and still doing some filming and picnicing on the beach as myrthe also came over and the usual beach related activities with children toys and my little nephew anna with whom i dug holes together with august being however a bit afraid of the water for my camera and at last turning back home and resuming the work on my apartment with the dividing wall now that myrthe is soon to come over i might get a new roommate for some time to help jacek"
ACTIONS: MONTH #116
"a month passed working at first really hard at the apartment's wall and at last finally finishing the wall within the apartment and also investing quite a lot of the tax money i got back to fix some used bikes but not really succeeding in time for when myrthe came to visit me stopping there my carpenter work and leaving with her and august to italy where we mostly took walks in which i have been taking a lot of videos but also pictures with for my essays and from eating mostly outside with my parents but also cooking at home for francesco and his family playing also cards together and taking my parent's dog asia also out for a walk to then make it home in sweden and really trying to work hard on my art work and on my thesis scanning pages of annotation and also fixing the internet cable to my archive through the walls and at last going back to the netherlands and with myrthe staying at her brother's place in maastricht visiting the beautiful city taking a lot of videos and pictures"
ACTIONS: MONTH #117
"a month spent at home getting my head back into reading theoretical texts and recompiling them with pictures from my project so quite a lot of time spent initially in this operation but also a lot of biking after biking quite much with myrthe in the netherlands with related activities including trying to fix a bike for august and resolving to steal an half broken one in front of the station repainting and changing the wheels to then go out both biking but mostly walking due to a little inflammation on my right foot to our favorite beach to light fires and barbecuing till at last meeting my supervisor at the university and getting hard in writings while staying with myrthe in her utrecht attic and doing little home improvements in my studio room like adding extra shelves and fixing a place where to do my paintings which i have finally resumed to at last doing a lot of explorations with a lot of picture taking and other parts of my documentation during a long weekend in berlin with myrthe and alone"
ACTIONS: MONTH #118
"after quite some traveling particularly in berlin that got me very active documenting also to interpret my dreams and get good pictures for my writings i had a full period at home working a lot to redefine my project and particularly the website this after perceiving the discontent of my work from the university and also doing a lot of work now to restructure my studio to host more potential outcomes of my project particularly seeking more physical and artistic production then going with august to buy new construction material and getting back to some carpentering but also going to different places to buy a bit of old toys to make small sculptures of the figure i see in the clouds thus preparing for more production to come and also resuming the work out in the gym to keep my heart healthy after feeling some pain in my chest and at last again traveling with myrthe this time to italy walking with their in the city and on the hills mostly documenting a lot and in various manners"
ACTIONS: MONTH #119
"a beginning of the month quite much dedicated to my still little son august taking him to the netherlands to both go to an amusement park there and later at a myrthe's old grandmother's birthday and thus doing small activities but then returning to sweden and setting off seriously both restructuring both my website and of consequence also finding new motivation to work on the show-case in my studio thus beginning do make a big murals on a wall representing my interface and building a little storage for my project in the closet where i was thinking to have the bathroom but then having to go to the netherlands and spending my time there too working on my website and helping jason to move and build ikea furniture in his new place getting a back pain but nonetheless going back to sweden and working hard on my studio show-case and also going to the gym and the office much regularly finding always something physical to do there as well like printing and stapling papers"
ACTIONS: MONTH #120
"a pretty intensive month both getting ready for christmas and using up a lot of my money to buy presents and also working hard on my studio finishing the murals and going quite further with other installation but other than that being quite much at the university where i have resumed teaching and thus spending idle hours listening to students presentations and only using markers but then having both august and myrthe over and letting go to all the work in the studio to travel to my parents in italy being at first confined in their mountain cottage during christmas working on my booklet with a video-game i have in made and then much filming and documenting exploring the surrounding historical cities also with jacek and brett"
ACTIONS: MONTH #121
"a month spent doing mostly documenting activities in the first place being traveling around northern italy with myrthe and jacek and then coming back to stockholm and again not doing many activities with myrthe coming over for a few days and then not really undertaking any carpentry work but being often at the university trying to create new collaborations but also doing more distracting work not to think about my supervisor situation such as painting and drawing and even cooking less than usual when myrthe has been around"
ACTIONS: MONTH #122
"a month spent getting quite much into my own research and thus doing quite a lot of office related activities like printing at the university and having to use my card in order to access the printer and then photograph again the computer mouse going back to my office but also a month spent a lot with august walking around and filming and in a few occasions at the swimming pool after many years but this time not bringing my camera along and only swimming with long periods without using any object as it is also the case for the few times i traveled to the netherlands at the beginning and at the end of the month"
ACTIONS: MONTH #123
"a quite active month not traveling so often and seriously now archiving all the physical outcomes of my project in boxes but also spending some lovely days out enjoying the sunny weather and biking quite a lot even with august and for a whole night surviving as nomads and other than that spend time in utrecht with myrthe and there concentrating myself more on writing down papers for each part of my project and finding little energy going back to sweden but at last doing some major changes in my studio resuming the interactive wall project"
ACTIONS: MONTH #124
"a month spent working really hard on my project now that my new supervisor stina is in favor of it and thus pushing quite much to construct my show-room making several times too many activities over the maximum amount i use for my layout and also while visiting my parents photographing way too many activities because of the many keys and doors to lock in their rich house house but also biking a lot and doing a lot of activities outdoor especially during the easter vacation with august with whom i also kept up working on my show-room and doing a lot of purchases for it but then going down in activities with myrthe coming over and also concentrating on the construction of my virtual environment which wanted me mostly seated and in front of my computer but nonetheless also doing quite many activities at the university having to use my card to activate the printer and certainly increasing my activities also with the smart phone i got from my mother with which i now communicate to myrthe"
ACTIONS: MONTH #125
"a pretty active month with a lot of work put from the beginning on my virtual world thus working a lot with computers also in preparation for a conference in amsterdam with a lot of traveling by airplane and train as well as by car going to a wedding with myrthe and not really doing much activities but a lot of photographing of new acquaintances to later come back in sweden and work really hard also setting up a door in the little guest room to maybe host an exchange student after the summer and also building a shelf over the door but falling and hurting myself and taking it easy from then doing very little activities during myrthe's visit at the end of the month but a lot of filming and photographing objects with a new camera after the old one had a malfunctioning button making at bit frustrating to photograph"
ACTIONS: MONTH #126
"a quite diverse week again characterized by a lot of smartphone usage to keep in touch with myrthe but also characterized by two camping excursions going first with august to the boy scouts and using different tools there i did not use for a long time like a shovel to dig a hole for the compost and also camping with myrthe and their friends to a music festival and not really bringing my computer there nor being allowed to use my camera so using little objects but then spending the last period in utrecht being quite busy producing t-shirts with my drawings and taking other small initiatives for my project but also keep up with my biking after having got a used bike with a set of small tools to repair it and also making sure to get some cooking going and use all of myrthe's kitchen several times to prepare good meals even for guests"
ACTIONS: MONTH #127
"a month started in the netherland still working quite hard on my project following up to myrthe's working rhythm and thus working much on my computer but also taking breaks and going camping with a canoe but particularly doing activities related to biking and then going to my parents' summer place in italy and there doing consistently many activities relating to the beach such as putting sun cream or playing beach ball or simply ball with august and myrthe or putting my new sunglasses on and drinking from plastic bottles but also doing quite some cooking in the unusual bad weather and taking small breaks by car to explore a bit of historical places and being quite active documenting them despite having to pay some attention to august and myrthe and at last being robbed of both my smartphone and laptop thus depriving me of the possibility to update my project in the last days of vacation"
ACTIONS: MONTH #128
"a month spent entirely back in sweden mostly doing activities related to my thesis preparation like reading and writing which brought little actual physical activities also made less by the replacement of the camera made to make the films of public spaces and the phone to annotate my ideas and the shapes of the clouds and also the dictaphone to record my thoughts all replaced with a smart phone which reduces the amount of objects i then photograph while being outside despite now also wearing my sunglasses which in fact adds an outdoor activity but other than that only doing a little bit of physical work to clean up the room for my new italian room mate riccardo and also limiting now my activities in the apartment because of his presence but otherwise being very constant to go to the gym"
ACTIONS: MONTH #129
"a month with a lot of traveling to italy to begin with photographing a lot of keys and remote controls to enter my parents' fortress and later coming back to sweden and writing and thus really using many objects also as well as when traveling to the netherlands and later going back to italy to check a land to buy at the iseo lake and still using quite a lot my smart phone till at last coming back to sweden and waking up very early every morning and in the complete darkness doing mostly computer work but also at last purchasing a van to fulfill my italian land plan"
ACTIONS: MONTH #130
"a month spent initially in gothenburg exploring the city alone and with myrthe but not doing many indoor activities as we were hosted by her friend and then moving back to stockholm doing a lot of car related activities there such as removing the rust on the door of my new van and cleaning inside as well as doing a lot of office related activities also arranging to buy a land in the alps and finally driving all the way with myrthe to the netherlands and mostly driving unable to do many activities but then coming back to stockholm and working hard to finish the show room in my bedroom doing mostly electronic connections on various installed devices"
ACTIONS: MONTH #131
"a month started going early to italy and having a lot of activities there taking many pictures per day mostly due to all the small tasks i had to do for my mother and all the keys and remote controls i had to use to access the many different spaces and later going back to sweden and doing a lot of activities dismantling all my showroom to rent my room to a sicilian guy with his girlfriend and finally going to myrthe's new place in the netherlands and also there doing quite many activities to help her getting settled particularly putting up many lights"
ACTIONS: MONTH #132
"a month started with little activities having no house where to live but then doing some work in myrthe's new house and also at august's place rearranging the room i made for him and then doing mostly computer work for my thesis and exhibitions to at last going to the netherlands for christmas eve and driving down to italy to do a lot of work in our new mountain cottage as well as doing outdoor work to clean up our firewood place"
ACTIONS: MONTH #133
"a month started in my new cottage in the mountains doing a bit of fixing but also a lot of walking in the sun and mostly taking care of the lighting of the fire and later going shortly to sweden in my new little room but getting things working rather functionally doing activities in either my little room or the kitchen o the bathroom but feeling rather nervous in such a small environment with also little august and the snow out forcing us to keep inside but anyway managing later to go to the netherlands and spend a whole week not only on my thesis but also building a prototype of my case study and also doing a smaller version of it back in sweden to then feel a bit lacking activities to do with both myrthe and august coming over"
ACTIONS: MONTH #134
"a lot of activities to begin with building a small model for my vehicle and later decreasing my amount of activities getting to travel to dublin for an exhibition and mostly doinG a lot of exploring there to then fly shortly back to sweden and then to my little mountain place there doing a lot of renovating activities like readjusting the already existing furniture and painting them as well as cementing the chimney but also in the end doing a little relaxing with myrthe"
ACTIONS: MONTH #135
"a month started in italy working really hard in my mountain cottage now deciding to build my show-room there despite myrthe still wanting me to do things in the netherlands and now building also a wall with a shelf to host my archival boxes while also preparing the living room to host all my devices and later going shortly back to sweden and doing quite some cleaning in liselott's apartment and then working only a little in the netherlands on my archival model running around to organize a small exhibit there and finally going back to sweden using not so many objects particularly while traveling until at last coming back to italy and resuming all my work with a lot of traveling by car to get equipment and the extra phone i use to check my emails"
ACTIONS: MONTH #136
"a month started in italy working in my show-room in the mountains and then really much characterized by a lot of exhibitions mounting first in the netherlands and then in germany where i did not really use so many tools keeping long hours in a frankfurt museum setting up my photo panels but also doing in this respect little cooking and too much socializing with other people only starting to use more objects upon coming back to august in sweden having to clean after him and his rabbits"
ACTIONS: MONTH #137
"a month with not so much activities with again quite some traveling going first to my alpine shelter and doing no work there as myrthe's father was also visiting and then going to london doing mostly walking and not so much activities before returning briefly to sweden to teach and doing mostly university related activities and thereafter going to the netherlands looking for a house with myrthe and lastly doing a lot of work in the end packing and even demolishing the things i built in my swedish apartment also driving them to the dump"
ACTIONS: MONTH #138
"a month doing a lot of renovation work to the apartment i am now leaving in stockholm and preparing to move out of sweden but also then going to san francisco and doing a lot of explorations and very little activities beside the few day setting up the exhibit with jacek and lastly coming back to sweden to be with august and doing more domestic activities there cooking for him and playing"
ACTIONS: MONTH #139
"a nice summer month started first with a frustrating period in august's old apartment recovering from the california trip and doing a lot of household stuff but then coming to my alpine shelter and there utilizing different tools to work on our vegetable garden but also to dismantle old wood deposits in front and in the back of the house while taking very nice walks and also getting a hat to protect me from the sun when visiting venice"
ACTIONS: MONTH #140
"in the mountains to begin with doing a lot of hiking with the newly bought sticks but also some driving to take august from the airport and keeping up the life there looking after the vegetable garden and feeling a bit overwhelmed with domestic work as soon as myrthe left resuming as well my technical work waking up early to update my project and then doing a whole day of driving to the netherlands and there having not so much to do but cooking and writing but also trying to do other small things like welding a loose piece in myrthe's bike"
ACTIONS: MONTH #141
"a month started in the netherlands again forcing myself to readapt to the city life after the summer in the mountains and also having to drive a long way to august where i refurbished is old room painting white and back to the netherlands bringing all my archive along to finally put up a small exhibit during a conference in amsterdam and trying to be active in the apartment cooking before going to berlin by train seating a long time as well as during my department conference making very little activities"
ACTIONS: MONTH #142
"a month started in sweden fixing the small room for august and i and then doing little activities while presenting my work at the hasselblad foundation before going very shortly to italy to sign the contract for my new land there and then coming to holland and working very hard renovating our new house pulling up all the old floor and replacing the bad beams learning to use many new machines and also doing quite some brick work underneath all the new wooden pavement"
ACTIONS: MONTH #143
"a month started in our new house in the netherlands suddenly feeling quite depressed as i did not manage to do much work with the bad weather and all the furniture inside but nonetheless managing to plant fruit trees and starting to build the bike shelter outside and then going to sweden and doing a lot of cooking and cleaning not only for august but also for jacek and brett and at last coming back to the netherlands resuming my work building a missing wall in the kitchen and dismantling and mounting a big closet in the bedroom"
ACTIONS: MONTH #144
"a month initially spent in the netherlands doing very good work on my project resuming paintings and drawings but also doing much work in the house and in particular building the bike shelter mixing and using kilos of cement to then fly to sweden and doing quite some activities there cooking and cleaning but not so much while supervising and at last coming to italy and using for the first time in a long time a chainsaw learning to fell big trees and working with myrthe to make nice wood of them to make space to my cathedral"