PEOPLE: MONTH #217
"walking around with the family in the near of san marco square still photographing more people met along the way with some original costumes but also very traditional ones especially on our way up to our apartment"
PEOPLE: MONTH #218
"still pictures taken of people met on the streets of venice while hanging out with my family there on our way to sell our old apartment interacting with people drssing up in their carnival suits mostly on the riva degli schiavoni and in the nice via garibaldi leading to our apartment photographing a couple dressing like a priest and a nun but also a poor bengali immigrant trying to make a living and certainly not cheerful"
PEOPLE: MONTH #219
"breathing more of the venice carnival mutilated by years of authoritarian lockdown and meeting more people also dressing in rather banal dresses like for example just behind the very touristic san marco square but also meeting more refined folk especially away from the crowd in what remains of the more residential neighborhoods like an old couple from castello who dressed up in the carnival dresses despite their very old age "
PEOPLE: MONTH #220
"going back with the family through the more touristic part of venice still finding carnival masks there with a very sunny and cloudless weather photographing mostly couples like one dressing as musketeers and two british looking twins and more classically dressed older guys but also a russian woman dressing in her traditional clothes"
PEOPLE: MONTH #221
"still more people met with the family during our stay in venice with a few couples dressing up in the same fashion and a quite talented but a bit introvert bulgarian puppeteer met in campo santa margherita observing his show there with my children later also meeting more creepy masks"
PEOPLE: MONTH #222
"meeting mostly people from the town below our mountain village schio such as the most famous artist there who would only talk about the czech women he had sex with when working there as a sculptor and later meeting a disabled woman active in the local politics who supported my project not knowing however whether she did so also to promote it against her her political opponents who were really mean to me and also meeting her boyfriend taking such good care of me and also coming several times to photograph me building the museum but never really developing any of the hundreds of photos he took and meeting as well a nice local girl who dropped out of her job to become a tourist guide and trying to involving her in guiding people to the cube at some point later also meeting the couple who tried to have me do a project back in my native highland who tried to however also involve me in projects i really did not believe into such as a machine to keep the body cells young and also meeting neretti a contemporary artist who moved to schio to live with his naples girlfriend in an old factory where he made quite a museum of his works and trying to be very supportive with him giving him free wood and support but soon realizing that it was a one way relationship with only me giving and him never offering anything back"
PEOPLE: MONTH #223
"photographing polina a jewish ukrinian refugee i tried to help by also giving her my bike and a lot of tips and also photographing the dutch young seller of the second hand laser machine i bought to produce the tag of my ark finding him a nice guy but not so competent later also meeting getting the rare chance to help out with the art students of myrthe bringing them to dusseldorf and there getting to meet a brazilian young artist whose grandparents were from a village not so far from my native village and meeting also their teacher who belonged to the previous generation of white dutch artists now so much fall out of fashion later also getting to know one of myrthe's young colleagues and then sister-in-law of the fine art department with some african blood apparently helping her out in her career as a sculptor however still overshadowed by the talent of her famous musician brother and the meeting more art students traveling with them back through germany finding them quite relaxed despite all the insecurity and fragility the new cultural dogmas cast on them"
PEOPLE: MONTH #224
"making it down to the mountains and photographing the youth coming to visit the ark some of them being very smart like a black guy from senegal and others quite restless like another black guy continuosly jumping around and also meeting very smart swiss born guy with quite a norwegian heavy rock culture and then spending a day in vicenza and meeting a turin guy in desperate need of money and helping him in the end despite suspecting him being a drug addict"
PEOPLE: MONTH #225
"meeting more young people from the plateau coming to visit the ark this time under the rain and getting to know a full of energy serbian girl and bangladesh girl completely without energy barely making it to the top of the mountain but also getting to know some more local italian girls including two twins and more sebian boys with a lot of initiatives especially as i facilitated them in the building of a shed using the branches from a nearby forest"
PEOPLE: MONTH #226
"photographing more young visitors of the ark and also mirella the old shepherd who made it all the way up to the museum with all her hundreds of ship and goats and donkeys becoming good friends and meeting other people taking their time to make it to the ark at first feeling rather suspicious about them but then realizing they came not to do any harm but really out of curiosity also photographing the nice babysitter lucia who came to help looking after the children while i installed the floors of the museum"
PEOPLE: MONTH #227
"keeping in the ark installing the floors despite the local authorities having had double thought about it on always on the alert to be spied and harassed by hunters and other haters but in the end getting many curious and genuinely interested folk visiting the museum like a guy without a hand and a rich architect son studying in london and his surgeon father and a group of bikers brought in by a tourist guide who has always been supporting the museum and have had quite a career in triathlon beginning to make the museum as a destination despite the road there not leading to anywhere and being to messy to bike on with also locals stretching barbwire to stop bikers from coming"
PEOPLE: MONTH #228
"meeting some nice artists working in a shared studio in the italian village where i lived with my mother and her husband after leaving the mountains and then also attending an evening at friends with a guy talking about astrology and photographing him as well as a nice girl with my same last name also photographing two bikers brought to me to the ark by roberta one of them being her husband and photographing a dominican girl helping out in a cafe up our mountain as well as photographing a woman spontaneously coming to the ark after being one of the few supporters on social media"
PEOPLE: MONTH #229
"more people met while working at the ark like a couple really supporting me on social media and a local painter with his father but also a local curator invited by the architect who was not in the least interested about the museum and a local musician with his wife who were bot genuinely interested but also spending a day in my native village of asiago and buying a sweater to protect me from the cold weather getting to know by chance an old friend of my father with whom he kept in contact over the many years the latter lived in canada without ever making it back home"
PEOPLE: MONTH #230
"meeting more couples coming to the ark to visit it while having a picnic with my children in the nearby beeches and getting to know their stories such as migrating from sardinia to the inland and later making it back to the netherlands attending sickle classes with a farmer lady photographing her and photographing a guy i met her who wanted to move to italy to run a farm together with his girlfriend working as a lapdancer in amsterdam in the end attending a future show in eindhoven photographing there one of the participants
PEOPLE: MONTH #231
"while hanging out with my old english colleague rolf hughes in a most futurist and banal even in eindhoven getting to photograph more of the girls working there and then beginning to construct a garage in the back of our garden getting to know a very cool and dedicated carpenter married to a sri lankan woman later attending my friend's mathijn noise concert in tilburg getting to know some of his musicians partners also meeting a dutch couple just outside the concert hall and finally getting to meet a southern italian married to an indian woman and slowly getting to become his friend"
PEOPLE: MONTH #232
"photographing also my new italian friend's indian wife and then switching to a better camera phone getting to photograph an amsterdam man volounteering to keep a square clean in the middle of town and chatting a long time with me also photographing panos' very sweet and helpful greek sister and then taking a rather adventurous journey with my children to italy driving throguh france and meeting in metz a very nice literature student guiding from the periphery to the city center and once in italy walking to the ark and finding already quite some people already walking there meeting a nice couple working as cooks on a cruise and then a local guy with his son"
PEOPLE: MONTH #233
"still in the mountains meeting an old man running a small farm with cows offering myrthe some coffee and later meeting some friends of chris from kyrgyzstan who took a big interest in my art project while i also took an interest in their nomadic background and their time under the soviets later celebrating with them the new year getting to meet more of chris and alessia's friend like a lady from neaples who became the cook in their restaurant and escaped her abusive husband and back in the netherlands spending a nice time with august coming for a visit and meeting a nice chinese guy selling bubble tea after making through europe and a portughuese guy living in a dodgy area and selling my son a tool for hacking"
PEOPLE: MONTH #234
"going at last for my first trip in years this time with my oldest son august visiting my old friend davide in the north west of sardinia and spending time with my son while he kept busy working for his jewish clients in the end visiting the beautiful costa paradiso following the whole coast on foot meeting a nice ukrainian lady also venturing the same way across the cliffs and later in a small town in the south of the island meeting an old man who has been traveling the world by bike and never spent one night in a hotel always getting locals to host him and on our journey back to holland meeting an austrian girl together with a half german and half polish guy both working for a big american company in amsterdam and also grouping up with an australian guy traveling through europe at last getting on the road again with both my sons and in germany meeting the well-off chinese girlfriend of my curator friend jason both working at oxford in england and then in italy receiving at the ark the first visits of people interested to see it"
PEOPLE: MONTH #235
"group of local guides making it to the mountains museum despite the rain and getting slowly fascinated with it despite some initial perplexity especially from a woman who was affected by some negative opinions about the museum she gathered on social media but in the end turning even her most enthusiast and donating to all of them one of my old mosaic tiles i originally intended for the museum"
PEOPLE: MONTH #236
"still meeting people visiting the ark like more bikers and later on two young belgians ending up there by mistake but before them spending some day s at lake garda with my youngest son waiting to pick up livia and myrthe from the airport and walking extensively on the shore meeting a very nice senegalese woman with her baby later also meeting a very intelligent botswana man in a supermarket parking lot and giving him some of our grocery and chatting together for some time also getting visited by a local lady from the mountains who was very much against my project to begin with but turned very positive about it after i explained it to her and her nephew"
PEOPLE: MONTH #237
"photographing the serbian carpenters who came to give me a hand plastering the higher parts of the wall of our barn and then photographing more people suddenly popping by while i was attaching the tags inside my ark including a couple with a man with quite a spanish accent who got really fascinated about the project and came back soon after with his daughters"
PEOPLE: MONTH #238
"getting more unexpected visits at my ark with people being very enthusiast about it and even bringing their dogs inside it before getting visited by a big group of scouts getting to meet all their leaders and sharing lunch with them and chatting after showing them the inside and giving them a mosaic tile as a present"
PEOPLE: MONTH #239
"meeting the leaders of a local scout group in the mountains bringing their youngest to visit my ark and then meeting a man coming there at a time i was working hard to fix it really wanting to take photos inside and showing himself as also a creative person getting also the help of a young couple from normandy who have been traveling the continent by bike and who came to visit me with my argentinian friend nico and then also getting visited unexpectedly by a lady who has a caravan in a nearby camping bringing also her nephews along and being most impressed about the ark and its functioning"
PEOPLE: MONTH #240
"more people coming spontaneously to visit the ark while i work on installing tags to it getting them all very excited about the whole concept after explaining it to them as if being in the ark become my only occasion to share my practice with other people"
PEOPLE: MONTH #241
"concluding my summer in italy meeting one more couple visiting my ark and being very impressed about it and then getting visited by an old couple who seemed very suspicious and awkward alomost as if sent there by neighbour hunter to spy on me even trying to offer me money to keep up with my project and in the end moving back to our small village in holland meeting really no one and just photographing during special occasions locals taking part of halloween and saint nicholas and christamas celebrations"
PEOPLE: MONTH #242
"photographing more street musicians during some weird christmas celebrations dressing up like in dickens' england and then spending our christmas holiday in the mountains meeting no single visitor to my ark there but then going to my native highland and there meeting a very inventive local man building all sort of genius expedients to become self-sufficient and back in the netherlands stumbling upon the cute carnival in arnhem photographing some of the people in the parade"
PEOPLE: MONTH #243
"still enjoying with my children the very informal but for this very spontaneous carnival in arnhem getting to photograph the people parading on our side of the road then also taking the children to the carnival in den bosch but finding this more famous one very conventional and quite regimented with almost everyone wearing the same kind of uniform and very few exception to this army of dutchies only seeking to get wasted"
PEOPLE: MONTH #244
"more people met at the quite spontaneous and nice carnival in arnhem and then people met at the more formal and boring carnival of den bosch going there with the children but soon getting fed up with it and its very standardized and regulated ceremony and back in our village in the end getting to meet from the land of carnivals the very young wife of my old brazilian friend mario who came for a visit being quite fascinated about her indigenous part of the family especially as i began to read into primitive societies living without governments and being rather egalitarian and ecological"
PEOPLE: MONTH #245
"meeting the father of one of my youngest son's classmate who took an interest in my project and later meeting a protester at a pro-palestinian rally also meeting some old local artists selling me their welding table and a very cool american farmer who is taking care of the local city farm and in a walk in the dunes meeting a nice italian couple also from the alps like me seeking for some nice scenery in the otherwise flat holland lastly meeting a very cool guy working at the anarchist book store in amsterdam chatting with him a long time mostly about all our readings"
PEOPLE: MONTH #246
"still attending a small gathering in amsterdam with artists discussing ecological issues and meeting an egyptian filmmaker and also a chinese artist who seemed to be quite blocked in being able to openly talk about issues so as not to be end up in trouble with the chinese authorities ans also meeting a very fun artist from ghana who was also very impressed about my work and finally meeting an armenian artist with whom i shared a more in depth and political understanding later traveling with the family to limburg to pick up an old engine i need for the fume aspirator in my welding station and meeting the owner of a small workshop discovering how brillinat and full of initiatives he is with a field cultivating forgotten seeds from all over europe and a background as a cook eventually turned into developing machines to sharpen kitchen knives lastly making it to den haag to get another engine there and chatting with a protester demanding several journalists to be freed also meeting another guy with him who used to travel to italy and import cars from there chatting with him in italian"
PEOPLE: MONTH #247
"traveling to italy for the spring holiday and making it to the arte sella sculptural park below my native highland meeting a girl working there who was quite interested about my project and then starting to attach the last tags in my ark getting some visitors like an industrialist making glasses and devoting a percentage of his earning to scientists delaing with bees and then a guy who got stuck with his motorcycle trying to visit the ark helping him to push his vehicle up the valley and also meeting a man who just came on purpose to visit the ark and got really happy about me showing him around and even bringing him to the top later getting a couple to visit me but also my new neighbour who generally spend her summer with her boyfriend running a little restaurant on the highest mountain in the region and finally getting to photograph a woman from sardinia who got really fascinated about my ark relating to ancient south american calendars and even came to give me a hand"
PEOPLE: MONTH #248
"meeting more people curious about my ark like a lady living in milan with his parents originally from the region and his husband and sons and their friend but also getting to meet a distant relative from my ancestors' village whose grandfather was a famous football player and a world hero sparing with his life the lives of his platoon after surrendering to the nazis and also meeting more people visiting the ark after my former neighbour gianfranco brought them there"
PEOPLE: MONTH #249
"photographing more of the visitors to my ark including gianfranco and mirella who spent one summer in our village and their friends among which a lady that lived in central america and were activists just prior to the dictatorships and a guy who was an art restorer and was quite curious about how i maintained the ark"
PEOPLE: MONTH #250
"meeting more of gianfranco's friends in the ark and discussing with them about it in the end also taking a walk with them towards the vegetarian restaurant where they parked their vehicles and chitchatting about them and their children immigrated to work in northern europe"
PEOPLE: MONTH #251
"after receiving one more couple in the ark getting the unexpected visit of four industrialists lead by another industrialist who previously came to visit me and discussing with them in rather technical terms the ark also later getting the visit of a quite energetic man who was actually born in the near contrada and remembered the time when the forest below the ark was a field and he would come and play there with the other children while tending the family cows also meeting one of his friends who came by bike with him to visit the ark"
PEOPLE: MONTH #252
"meeting a last group of people accidentally walking by the ark and inviting them inside to present the work to them before returning to the netherlands and only meeting there a brabant man with a quite bizarre curiosity-shop and also meeting an albanian man who grew up in italy and started a chic pinza restaurant in antwerp finally making it back to italy for the summer with almost no people coming spontaneously to the ark but an old friend who immigrated to bolivia bringing his daughter along and then also at his goodbye party meeting a guatemalan friend of his with her boyfriend into bees"