I'd like to be a chef. Cooking is much more influential, political and social than producing objects in the art context. My daughter said me than then I should work much more. Obviously, I'm not dreaming of being a line cook but a conceptual director of the Riiko Sakkinen Restaurant.

This week's menu would consist exclusively of food products that are allowed into Gaza Strip under the blockade of Israel: wheat, flour, cooking oil, cooking fat, sugar, salt, pasta, dates, garlic, chick peas, rice, lentils, kidney beans,margarine, dairy products, powdered milk. frozen meat, frozen fish, frozen vegetables,  eggs, fruit, yeast, semolina, tea, instant coffee, canned tuna, salami (interesting pork product for Muslims), canned meat, zaatar, sesame seeds, chicken stock powder, olives, aniseed, cinnamon, camomile, potatoes and mineral water.

The bad side of living in the country is that it's troublesome to buy here art supplies. I needed lot of material because after seeing Jonathan Meese gigantic paintings at CAC Malaga, I decided that I have to paint it big if I want to be as big as him.

I drove to Madrid which wasn't a really good idea with all that traffic jam in Gran Via, though I find it thrilling to drive in the centers of big cities. And I like to shop my material at Jer, a traditional small art supplies store just in Calle de Hortaleza. I thought it was my lucky day when I found a parking place just in the front of the shop but when I came back with the parking display ticket, a police man was writing me a fine ticket. I told the agent that I'm from the village and I don't understand the parking rules of the metropolis and he let me go. I spent €2500 in the painting materials and I couldn't afford to pay an extra for parking violation.

Jer will ship next week my custom MDF bases, canvases, glues, paints and brushes and before that I have time to think what to paint. What I know is the size - big means 360cm x 720cm. It will be assembled of 120cm x 120 modules which makes it easy to work and transport and it will be as fragmentary as the word it depicts.

A friend told me that we should boycott all Israeli products for the raid on the Swedish activist flotilla heading to Gaza. I tried to spot in Carrefour hypermarket goods made in Israel and put there TERRORIST signs but I couldn't find any. What do they produce there?

The only Israeli product I remember is the Uzi submachine gun. I recommend that if you are thinking of buying one for yourself or maybe thousands of them for your troops, please think other options like the Swedish Saab Bofors Dynamics CBJ-MS. I think it's a good gun though naturally it's not the legendary Uzi, one of the world's most famous firearm brands, a 20th century design classic and a true icon. Since it's launch in 1950 the Uzi family has been in service worldwide by army, secret service, police and special forces. Soon after its introduction the angular-shaped Uzi quickly emerged as the most unique and innovative submachine gun and its key design features became industry trendsetters (quote from the official manufacturer's site).

I'm listing mineral waters for My Favorite Waters for Water Torture of Millionaires. The work will be exhibited in June at Korjaamo Galleria in Helsinki in a group show titled Cool Water. It will consist of an A4 list drawing and a selection of mineral waters in crystal bottles. Jaana is having hard time trying to find bottled water in Helsinki. The Finns think that everything else than municipal tap water is useless luxury and an ecological crime. Maybe they are right but I've never heard anybody saying a word about crystal bottled wine what is imported to Finland from Southern Europe or even from other continents.

Anyhow, I'm now interested in the water torture. It leaves no external marks on victims and has been and will always be one of the most favored torture methods around the world. Practices of the water torture include dunking, forced ingestion, waterboarding adn the infamous Chinese water torture used by the CIA in its secret torture camps. 

I like the idea of torturing the richest capitalists, the most corrupted politicians and the most powerful warlords with Bling H2O, a Tennesee spring water purified in a nine-step process that includes ozone, ultraviolet treatment and micro-filtration. It is sold in frosted bottles decorated with Swarovsky crystals.

My son was crying, my daughter was asking me why dinosaurs died and I was reserving flights for the family - for the summer holiday in Finland, this is what we the emigrants do in August, we don't go to Benidorm or Varadero but to our home countries. Obviously, this multitasking was too much and I got the flights from Helsinki to Madrid when we should go from Madrid to Helsinki. Shit happens.

Actually, I believed that I was going to Mexico today. I'm in the group show Ese Oscuro Objeto del Deseo at Pristine Galerie in Monterrey but nobody sent me tickets that I was waiting. In fact, I'm really happy because traveling was the last thing I wanted to do now. I sent to Raúl, who curates the show, instructions how to paint some demonstration signs with my slogans. I think that's going to be fine. I don't have to be everywhere and do everything.

Now I want to be at home with my kids and wife. The only travel destination is Madrid next week, I'm going to buy lots of painting materials and then beginning a new series of canvases. That's my dream for the next two months: play with the kids, eat lots of gazpacho and paint some marvelous works.