TRASH: MONTH #216
"trash picked while in the netherlands mostly talking walks with livia particularly in our usual walk across utrecht but also shortly going alone to my parents city in vicenza and walking there finding only a bit of trash"
TRASH: MONTH #217
"walking around both utrecht and amsterdam with livia and finding little trash despite the good weather and some ramadan related fliers and many beer mats especially next to bars"
TRASH: MONTH #218
"traveling by car through germany and visiting the tourist city of heidelberg walking all the way through it and picking quite some trash"
TRASH: MONTH #219
"now in innsbruck staying at my norwegian friend asmund and walking through the city hours and hours but only occasionally finding some trash"
TRASH: MONTH #220
"taking a break from cities working in the mountains at my installation but then being stopped by the hunters and going to milan for an interview walking all the way across it picking quite some trash also in chinese for the many chinese people leaving there"
TRASH: MONTH #221
"in the deep suburbs of milan still walking extensively and now picking trash also much showing the fight between the anti-immigrant and anti-european party and the left pro-europe and pro-immigrant party with again more chinese trash and some fruit wraps among other fliers"
TRASH: MONTH #222
"in sardinia on holiday with august and livia now not really finding so much trash but then going to sassari and finding quite a lot feeling almost like in india with much garbage everywhere and a lot of fliers still on the ground from the last political elections"
TRASH: MONTH #223
"working mostly at my installation in the mountains but also taking small trips to cities and picking trash both in the near of mantua and trento beside often going to vicenza yet many at times having to carry livia and being quite unable to scavenge"
TRASH: MONTH #224
"walking extensively in several german cities driving from the south to the north but finding them quite clean and often under the rain like in munich and later in wurzburg finding a bit of trash and more in dortmund with a football game and a lot of fans but not so many fliers"
TRASH: MONTH #225
"trash picked still while traveling to germany and then back in holland mostly visiting small cities awaiting for baby silvester to be born and anyway often find too wet trash to be picked due to the bad autumn weather"
TRASH: MONTH #226
"still in holland picking trash walking around with livia but also later with myrthe and baby silvester and only shortly going to italy to discuss my project with the hunters and picking trash in schio while hosted at my architect"
TRASH: MONTH #228
"very rainy and humid winter weather going often out with the kids crossing several time our small city but finding relatively little trash except rivers of trash after the new year celebration with an exceptional amount of fireworks exploded in every corner of the city and the cleaning machine breaking up to clean the side-walks"
TRASH: MONTH #229
"picking trash taking august several times to amsterdam as his flight got canceled due to the bad weather and finding seldom some good weather to pick trash in general beside one day spent in rotterdam walking with the city already on its way to get locked up due to the coronavirus outbreak yet finding quite cool and original graphics there"
TRASH: MONTH #230
"confined to our small dutch city throughout the coronavirus lock-down unable to go anywhere else yet finding a very good weather for picking trash on the sidewalks but in general trying to stay away from the city center due to the pandemic and finding anyway not so much trash with streets getting disinfected and at last going to utrecht with myrthe and the kids as the pandemic restrictions eased"
TRASH: MONTH #231
"picking some last trash in italy before traveling back through germany to holland and there finding a reasonable dry weather picking regularly trash walking around with the kids mostly always staying in our town and barely going to bigger towns now infected with the coronavirus pandemic"
TRASH: MONTH #232
"still picking trash mostly walking around with my kids in our small town of culemborg but also visiting utrecht and the very urban south of rotterdam finding however not so much trash despite walking quite a lot and despite the weather being quite okay"
TRASH: MONTH #233
"staying exclusively in our dutch village of culemborg and mostly walking around and through the city with the kids finding quite some trash despite the pandemic and some restrictions being applied also to limit the tuesday market and starting to see fliers that report on the actual pandemic itself"
TRASH: MONTH #234
"trash collected walking around with my kids during the total lock-down of the netherlands and also with a period of heavy snow fall and much ice hindering any picking and despite all the shops being closed still finding most of the trash in the near of supermarkets and few activities allowed to stay open finding also some shopping lists and also fliers related to the upcoming general election"
TRASH: MONTH #235
"a month still in lock-down cruising through our village with all the shops still closed and mostly finding trash by supermarkets like shopping lists and soda cans drank by teenagers and mostly picking trash while with my kids pushing the stroller and collecting it as we walked despite the many days of rain"
TRASH: MONTH #236
"starting to go to big cities like amsterdam and later rotterdam after the pandemic with now also shops allowed to open up again and beginning to find again nice fliers especially in poor neighborhoods much dirtier than the sterile white people neighborhoods and also finding some trash related to the pandemic like packaging of the actual mouth masks and a typical flier affected by the black life matter movement with a black kid represented on it"
TRASH: MONTH #237
"back in cities after a period fully engaged with the building of the project museum and with august going to refresh the venice apartment picking some trash from the city but also while in milan picking more trash walking across the italian metropolis with its inhabitants on holiday and not so many tourists due to the pandemic but many promotions to use different smartphones applications"
TRASH: MONTH #238
"trash picked making it back to the netherlands spending a day walking in verona finding quite some tourists and some trash despite being a main italian holiday and then from the netherlands spending a weekend in germany going at first to essen to then really scout with the family the nicer city of dusseldorf with quite a crowd and quite a lot of trash particularly in a rather hipster area we discovered roaming to the north"
TRASH: MONTH #239
"still picking some trash in dusseldorf exploring more of the japanese quarters with my family before returning to holland getting back to my usual life there roaming around with the children and picking occasional trash with still quite an okay weather"
TRASH: MONTH #240
"picking trash in the netherlands but mostly in france going on holiday with my family in the very south and despite walking so much in many villages of the provence finding little trash with just some politician fliers and most of the actual trash found in the fancy aix-en-provence but not in the poorer smaller towns more to the north"
TRASH: MONTH #241
"a period working full time as a carpenter and really struggling to collect trash often going to work for museums in amsterdam or other parts of the netherlands and walking outside during my break finding occasional trash and hiding it in my jacket but also trying to take my kids out for walks during my free time finding not so much trash in general also due to the winter period and much rain with just some trash linked to the festivities also however quite limited due to the corona virus pandemic restrictions"
TRASH: MONTH #242
"trash still picked in the netherlands particularly after a walk in the now gentrified and fancy south of amsterdam before making it to italy and staying in venice during carnival with almost no international tourists due to the pandemic yet some non official celebrations and also making it with my family to the sea side taking advantage of the too hot beginning of the spring picking some trash on the way to the beach"
TRASH: MONTH #243
"still in venice making a small holiday with my family there before selling for little money our run down apartment and picking trash in all our crossing of the old city with the kids in our shoulders and also traveling by ferry to the small and cute island of burano finding it quite overwhelmed by tourists despite the pandemic finding quite some trash before traveling back to the north stopping in germany to stretch our legs and picking trash there"
TRASH: MONTH #244
"still some trash picked while traveling through germany with my children back to the netherlands stopping mostly in heidelberg for a rather long walk with them before returning to our dutch village and picking trash mostly occasionally walking around and bringing and picking livia from school"
TRASH: MONTH #245
"finding quite some redundant trash walking around our dutch village but also in utrecht with the usual uninspiring albert heijn and jumbo products escaping this almost hardcore socialist and corporative homologation making it with some art students to dusseldorf in germany bringing them to two museums there and walking in between the two sneaking out and picking quite some trash"
TRASH: MONTH #246
"a very intense period traveling still through germany and here finding some of the usual enforced cultural representation such as placing a black man closed to a blond woman and in italy instead picking occasionally some trash at one point visiting my friend francesco in vicenza and there even find on the sidewalk in front of his house pieces of decades old advertisement and traveling back through germany stopping in stuttagrt to visualize the places of fred uhlman novel i just read finding a beautifully located ciies but completely trashed down by the many migrants with an incredible number of fliers inviting to follow the christian religion"
TRASH: MONTH #247
"on my way back to the netherlands stopping in koblenz and walking extinsively the too reconstructed city finding however some interesting trash befre resuming my routine life in our dutch village picking some trash there and later while crossing breda on foot but most interestingly picking some trash in a very rough immigrant neighborhood in the small city of tiel finding there some trash of eastern countries"
TRASH: MONTH #248
"trash picked to begin with in the netherlands and then traveling with my kids across germany picking some trash there during our stops despite the initial rain spoiling all the trash and then starting to pick quite politically oriented trash walking across padua right after the local elections"
TRASH: MONTH #249
"still some political fliers picked going to meet my sick aunt in padua and letting the children play with their mother who came for a day to see them and then staying pretty much in the mountains picking no trash and always staying in nature until at last driving to pick myrthe at the airport and spending the day waiting for her in the summer resort of jesolo with my friend francesco and his family picking quite some trash there with disco fliers and so on prior and after meeting them so as not to disgust unnecessarily"
TRASH: MONTH #250
"going on holiday with my family to abruzzo and there occasionally picking some trash visiting small villages but never finding that much and then spending a day in rome picking up august there from the airport and picking a lot of trash mostly for tourists but also rather religious"
TRASH: MONTH #251
"still some trash picked while in italy and then traveling back to the netherlands through germany and finding there very little trash visiting mostly historical touristic towns and back in the netherlands keeping most of the time in our village finding there almost no trash especially with the weather getting quite rainy"
TRASH: MONTH #252
"pretty much spending most of this month in our small dutch village and walking quite much through it picking some trash but mostly finding it in big cities such as when visiting an old english colleague from stockholm in eindhoven crossing the whole city to see his silly exhibition and then also spending a day in dordrecht with myrthe meeting her friends there while the children and i walked through the city"