ACTIONS: MONTH #181
"spending the first part of the month in the mountains alone with livia and unable to really do things with her always in my arms and even being limited to do the smallest things such as cooking having to spend our time inside the only heated room and also spending some days at my mother being also very limited with things we could do and having to keep everything in maniac order as she demanded and finally getting back to holland and getting back to our domestic life there particularly with the winter weather keeping us indoor"
ACTIONS: MONTH #182
"a period spent firstly in the netherlands taking care of livia and the house doing pretty normal domestic tasks as well as working on my project till going to berlin and doing little domestic activities there mostly mostly filming and photographing while exploring the city but also waking up very early every day to work on my project and back in the netherlands resuming to look after livia and also working heard merging all the parts of my project into month files especially in the evenings"
ACTIONS: MONTH #183
"a month spent in the netherlands looking after little livia and keeping up with my project but also flying to sweden and staying first in stockholm for a speech at iaspis studios socializing there with my old artist friends and then going to the uppsala countryside with august for over a week mostly cooking and pausing certain aspects of my project such as painting which i resumed back in the netherlands at the end of the month and overall also spending quite some time outside with the weather turning increasingly good"
ACTIONS: MONTH #184
"a month using a lot of objects with only not so much objects used while driving through germany and austria and at the beginning keeping in the netherlands doing domestic work and keeping care of livia as my project and later in italy getting quite physical working on my installation in the mountains and demolishing the kitchen chimney when it rained"
ACTIONS: MONTH #185
"a month working extremely hard to begin with to set up my installation with help of davide and even starting to wed the whole structure before been called off by the architect who feared along with the municipality some retaliation from the local hunters and the right wing supporting them and at last giving up the plan to keep on building and at first spending some time at my mother in vicenza to later reunite with my little daughter livia in mestre while her mother took her students to the venice biennale and mostly exploring the city despite the rain and at last making it back to the netherlands resuming my life there taking care of livia and working on my project but also doing some gardening and some biking"
ACTIONS: MONTH #186
"a month working hard on my project while in the netherlands babysitting livia even in the weekends with myrthe constantly at work and later traveling alone to italy meeting up with august there and spending a few days on the road traveling briefly to the mountains to cut grass and then down to tuscany and finally to sardinia meeting up with myrthe and livia there spending a holiday mostly indoor during the day and out on the beach with less sun using a fair amount of tools particular in the rented apartment but then having to take care alone of livia and being sort of hindered to do much but when she slept"
ACTIONS: MONTH #187
"activities mostly done while in the mountains working hard along with august to build a new base for the cube installation but also managing to spend time with myrthe and livia playing and cooking often for them and in the end also doing small works to improve the household situation"
ACTIONS: MONTH #188
"working far less at my installation in the mountains after being sued by the hunters there and even leaving italy much earlier and traveling through germany using far less objects as well as back in the netherlands mostly looking after livia working hard on my project in the spare time resulting also in less objects being used"
ACTIONS: MONTH #189
"in the netherlands now taking full care of livia and enjoying the weather still rather warm with myrthe highly pregnant and still working but then finally taking maternity leave and doing quite some work now moving my study in the attic and turning my study into a bedroom for our future son doing quite some painting and fixing also around the house but also taking advantage of the weather to go on my racing bike and beside that mostly using objects to cook for both myrthe and little livia"
ACTIONS: MONTH #190
"the month in which my youngest son silvester was born and following my girlfriend also later doing quite some work to keep track of his weight and temperature but also keeping up taking care of little livia and feeling dreadful about being summed by the mayor in italy to talk about my project in front of the community just a few days after silvester's birth and wasting time and money to fly to italy and back only for such an event at last back in the netherlands with my girlfriend now home from work making a few experiments on how to produce the textures for my installation in italy and trying out the old technique of ferrocement while also doing all the cooking for dinner and lunch"
ACTIONS: MONTH #191
"a month fully spent in the netherlands taking care of my children and having not so much extra time to take care of my project beside updating regularly and thinking a lot about how to create the tags of my tebah making several prototypes with new tools and also traveling with the whole family to several places around the netherlands to get material to experiment and combining these trips with small excursions often resulting in very little objects used particularly carrying silvester in the carrier bag and just walking with him unable to do so much more"
ACTIONS: MONTH #192
"beside some few days spent exploring hamburg a month spent intensively with the kids and often being unable to do many things and trying to do them during their nap time still however cooking a lot and keeping up with a full update of my project aside for the time august spent with us during the christmas holiday and then focusing mostly to spend time outdoor"
ACTIONS: MONTH #193
"a month spent entirely in the netherlands with my family at first taking small trips but then pausing the registration of our car and keeping mostly at home and in our village taking care of the family and our small kids and also managing quite some work on my project"
ACTIONS: MONTH #194
"a month spent entirely in the netherlands without a car and almost daily taking care of my small kids including august coming over during the carnival holiday and despite that also being able to work a lot on my project spending not so much time outside due to the very hectic weather with no snow but many storms"
ACTIONS: MONTH #195
"a month spent almost entirely in our town in the netherlands with the corona virus outbreak sweeping through europe and at first forcing myrthe to calling sick and then experiencing the actual restrictions imposed by the government and taking advantage of the restrictions to do work in the garden and on my project thus also seldom changing places and taking far less pictures than usual not even going with myrthe now also doing all the grocery to avoid me getting too exposed since i don't have a health insurance yet taking much care of the kids starting to feed little silvester and often giving him the pacifier to make him asleep during our walks along the river with also nice spring days coming out but the beeping feedback of my camera stopping to work making difficult to understand whether or not i took a picture"
ACTIONS: MONTH #196
"a month being quite active at home with the pandemic lock-down limiting any traveling and also being very sunny so spending a lot of time outside walking the kids mostly to various spots along the river and still working hard on my project and also developing a successful prototype for my mosaic tags and also doing quite some work out in the garden cutting brambles and planting berry trees and at last building a shed where to produce my mosaic tags"
ACTIONS: MONTH #197
"a very sunny and warm month spent almost entirely with my kids taking care of them cook and playing and taking walks often going beaches by the river and beside taking good care of my project and doing small home improvements like finishing the shed in the garden where to one day build my mosaic tags and also removing the ivy so much bothering my neighbours in the end getting ready to travel to italy with the easing of the lock-down there"
ACTIONS: MONTH #198
"a month spent in italy at times using very little tools having to look after the kids but at times also managing to do quite a lot especially renovating the barn to host people there and at times using little objects traveling by car down the mountains or spending the days with guests coming to document the realization of my project there"
ACTIONS: MONTH #199
"a month spent at the beginning still waiting for the permit to execute my installation taking care of the kids and trying to use whatever time to also dig behind the barn ultimately getting the permit and beginning to work on the installation however never taking too many photos of objects doing the same task in the same place for a long time like digging gravel or beginning to weld up the structure"
ACTIONS: MONTH #200
"a month spent still partly in the mountains finishing off the building of the structure of my museum there and then cleaning up but also starting to spend more days with my family until at last leaving to go back to holland and there recovering my more motherly tasks like cooking and taking care of the children but also working to improve the shed where i am planning to produce the time capsules for the museum"
ACTIONS: MONTH #201
"a month back in the netherlands using surprisingly little tools with my hands occupied almost all day long to take care of silvester now always requiring my to walk him around and only being able to update my project in the morning and work on the time capsules for my mountain museum in the evening with a middle of the day using only walking and photographing my phone"
ACTIONS: MONTH #202
"a quite productive month spent taking care of the family with myrthe having to work more nonetheless managing to also keep up building my mosaic tiles in the shed mostly at night and to also keep up my overall project at last with myrthe going on holiday and spending a week traveling to different natural destinations in the netherlands doing quite some hiking and also later going to visit august in sweden using the mornings to update my project and its thesis to also hike in the afternoons always in the nature avoiding the virus infected cities but in the end not using so many objects beside for cooking"
ACTIONS: MONTH #203
"a month with relatively not so many pictures taken as in the other months perhaps spending too much time outdoor and not so much indoor cooking and taking care of the household but nonetheless keeping up with quite a schedule of updating my project early in the morning and staying with my kids throughout the day to then resume the working with my mosaics in the evening and also getting more active in the afternoon with livia on my side while little silvester sleeps and draw and prepare the mosaics for the casting having little objects sometime in use given also the fact that i spent many hours on the computer developing the interface for the mosaic retrieval"
ACTIONS: MONTH #204
"spending the month working really hard both taking care of my kids as well as my project now setting up a metal workshop in the backyard of our dutch house and beginning the cutting and welding up of the textures for my alpine museum but then getting halted by one neighbour due to the excessive noise and thinking of away to reduce the sound and mostly resuming my normal life working a lot on the editing on my thesis and taking advantage of myrthe's christmas holiday letting her do more of the domestic work i do when she works"
ACTIONS: MONTH #205
"a month working very hard on different fronts beside taking care of the kids and making the afternoon also a time for work with silvester asleep and livia keeping outside with me while i ultimately decided to build a soundproof metal workshop in our backyard after some neighbours complained about the noise i was making and mostly dedicating myself to it during the weekends but also doing a lot of computer work improving my website late in the evenings"
ACTIONS: MONTH #206
"a month working very hard both taking care of my children cooking for them and playing with them as well as working on my project mostly editing my thesis wearing headphones not to be distracted and keeping up with the making of mosaics beside for a short period spent in myrthe's brother forest house and managing also there to use quite some tools mostly for cooking whatever food we brought along and at last getting my welder fixed and resuming also the making of my textures"
ACTIONS: MONTH #207
"a month trying to be disciplined with my work despite myrthe working very hard all day and being left with the kids throughout the day still trying to take advantage of whatever time available to weld the textures of my museum but soon running out of them and focusing on editing my website and reviewing my project starting to write missing accounts and also editing videos for my website but then getting quite burned in my head and with the coming of the spring taking the kids more frequently out for walks making small journeys to the forest and the beach but in these days away from home making considerably less photos with less objects to be photographed and anyhow having no energy left in the evening to work on my project and at times doing that but getting concerned about the quality of the work done when i am so tired"
ACTIONS: MONTH #208
"a month working very hard receiving the new shipment of metal from china after waiting months for it and setting forth to weld all the textures of the project museum both early in the morning and in the evening also managing to take care of my kids and doing fun things with them during the day despite the bad weather and also trying to set up a good ventilation system having to change it again after the complaints of my neighbour and beside that also keeping up with my project updating it on my computer and in the afternoon drawing and doing my mosaics"
ACTIONS: MONTH #209
"working very hard at the beginning finishing the welding of the project museum textures with myrthe on holiday and often worrying about taking too many pictures but in the end never exceeding the limit of the format i gave myself and later taking far less pictures with the welding job down still producing every week a new batch of mosaics but generally taking little photos especially in the days going with the kids for excursions but also alone to amsterdam to join the protest against the bombing of gaza and later to delft to check a land art foundation where to possibly install my mosaics combining it with trips to rotterdam and in these occasions not really using so many tools other than my phone and my camera having also lost my pocket knife while back at home using quite many utensils to cook for the kids and clean after them"
ACTIONS: MONTH #210
"a month spent in the mountains at first taking care of the kids with only time very early in the morning and late in the evening to weld every four of the museum textures together and then after myrthe's departure to the netherlands getting help from a local girl to look after the kids and having some time in the morning and in the afternoon with august and later also with the brother of the girl to start welding the textures on the actual museum using pretty much the same tools over a long time so not really taking many photos of objects and at times having to take photos high up despite being afraid of heights ultimately having no one to help me with the kids and spending the last days of the month at the seaside using very little objects with the usual issues to having to carry my camera also when at the sea and with little silvester not really allowing me to even cook always wanting to be with me"
ACTIONS: MONTH #211
"a month spent in the mountains working really hard to set up the textures of the project museum yet keeping on the same site and using the same objects so not really showing the amount of work with always very little photos at the end of the day until the work with the museum progressed and a distinction was possible between the inside and the outside of it rephotographing again the objects i used outside as soon as one or more objects where used inside and vice-versa and beside that also spending some days with myrthe and the kids taking walks and also in these days taking few photos and at last trying to wrap up with the museum and helping august to improve the terrain around and later struggling to put a layer of linseed oil all over it in the very end using many tools going to the venice apartment to renovate it after several years with the students making a mess during the pandemic"
ACTIONS: MONTH #212
"working very hard at the beginning of the month being left alone in italy after a fight with myrthe and taking advantage of the situation to do all the work i was not able to do with the kids starting to plaster the barn in the mountains and spending a few days cleaning up the path to the project museum before finishing to freshen up the venice apartment yet never managing to take many picture despite all the work using in fact little objects and also using little objects returning to the netherlands mostly focusing on the children and doing promotion of the project museum on the internet"
ACTIONS: MONTH #213
"a very sunny beginning of the fall trying to spend as much time out with my kids in turn not using so many objects but the usual ones on the road like my phone and camera as well as the car keys and the credit card but either way managing somehow to still get some objects photographed mostly in the evening cooking and at times starting to dismantle the metal workshop outside feeling very hesitant to resume the production of my mosaic tiles"
ACTIONS: MONTH #214
"a month spent at first with the children trying to take walks together despite the weather getting worst and being unable to pursue my mosaic tiles project also having no access to the attic with carpenters starting to work in the house and at last going for a week to provence and there using a fair amount of objects despite spending the days visiting places finally half way in my project starting a factory like work building pedestals for exhibitions and photographing the objects i use in the work environment having to get my new colleagues used to it"
ACTIONS: MONTH #215
"a really hard working month learning a lot of carpentry and using many new tools to build exhibitions in my new workplace but also demolish them at the stedelijk in amsterdam and in the evening trying to play as much with my children as well as take care of my project after they go to bed taking much more easy during the weekend trying to be out for walks and not really using so much tools then "
ACTIONS: MONTH #216
"with this panel reaching exactly half of my project with exactly half to go photographing my right hand and living now completely unnoticed as an immigrant doing a low paid hard job serving cultural institutions and getting to use many tools to build at work but also getting quite tired of it being kept most of the time in the very noisy and unhealthy workspace trying to be as much as possible with my kids otherwise but being often stuck home due to the weather and really seeing in the panels the days with little tools spent at home or doing small excursions with the kids later also in the short christmas holiday going into a lock down with the coming back of the pandemic and working on the attic of our house using old tables to make one big table in front of the window and starting to put plaster boards all around the wall"