My wife is my best and toughest critic. She doesn't come to my studio every day but when she does, she sees exactly what is good and what is bullshit and any nonsense explications can't trick her.

The last weeks, after finishing the series of list drawings, I've been working on the series of large scale drawings that will be exhibited at Galeria Gacma in Malaga in May. My wife came to give her judgment and said that they need more work. I replied that I don't know how to do it, that it's beyond my technical skills.  She promised to finish my drawings if I clean the old bodega which we use as a storage.

Now the bodega is clean and ordered and my wife told that when I come back from my trips to Helsinki and Oslo my mediocre works have turned out masterpieces.

Dear Friend,

I am the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of Africa Development Bank (ADB), Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, West Africa.

We discovered an abandoned sum of USD $20M (TWENTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crashed near Paris on the 25th of July 2000.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because the bank cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as it was indicated in our banking guideline and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crashed leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you so that you can stand as the beneficiary to the deceased customer and to enable the bank to release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased customer for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill because the banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after nine years that is almost near, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner, and I agree that 45% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be for me, thereafter,

I will visit Your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your designated bank account, you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application that I will send to you, so I will like you to send to me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication between each other and also about the location where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application that you will use in claiming the money as the beneficiary to the deceased customer.

I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Truly Yours,

Mr. Riiko Sakkinen

I'm drawing ketchup. Ketchup is as red as the Khmer Rouge. And my Ferrari is as red as my ideology. Though I don't have a Cavallino Rampante and maybe I neither have an ideology. I'm reading Slavoj Žižek and after every page he writes, I have to rethink everything I believe in. Maybe I'm never going to have a rosso corsa colored sports car but while I draw I think about my new golden Chevrolet Cruze that I hope to drive before the weekend.

Anyhoo, I'm drawing Holomodor, Holocaust, Srebrenica and other genocides, democides and politicides - everything covered with a thick layer of delicious tomato ketchup - while my daughter is watching Tom and Jerry.

Jerry receives a knife from his buddy and places it in Tom's hands. Jerry splatters ketchup on Tom's chest and on the knife and tugs on the rope in order to be reeled in. Tom wakes up, screams and runs backwards into a wall, thinking that he has stabbed himself. He grabs his chest and some of the ketchup is on his hand. Thinking that it is blood, Tom screams again, inflates himself and lets himself float through the house. As Tom bounces on the ceiling, he spots the ketchup bottle. He tastes the "blood" and finds it is ketchup.

I was supposed to be professional and invest my money - after selling few drawings to Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art - in my business and order some wooden bases from the carpenter, buy paints and other materials but I think that I can't do that in the very near future - I spent all my money (and a big amount of the future income) on a new golden Chevrolet Cruce LT 2.0 VCDi MT with 150 hp and 17' alloy wheels.

Chevy is an American General Motors brand but founded originally by European Louis Chevrolet and my Cruze is made at the GM manufacturing plant in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon. I trust in everything Korean. Now I'm finally fixing my teeth and my dental braces will be soon installed by my super cute Korean dentist. It's enough to have my teeth lined up, everything doesn't have to be golden like my new car that I'll drive in few days.

And they were singing,
Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singing, this will be the day that I die.

I'm drawing the big work on paper Eden Club Torremolinos, and smaller Execution of Chemical Ali, Pump and Dumb Tonight, Macht, My Ideology Is As Red As My Ferrari and Pirates in Your Paradise. The last list drawing I did for my show at Korjaamo was My Favorite Colas. It has the taste of freedom, whatever it is.

A-Treat Cola, Adria Cola, Afri-Cola, Alef Cola, Alter Cola, American Cola, Amrat Cola, Apotekarnes Cola, Baikal (this was originally the Soviet rival or substitute for Coke), Barr Cola, Beed Cola, Big 8 Cola, Big Cola, Big K Cola, Blue Sky Cola, Bob’s Cola, Boylan, Bovonto, Breizh Cola, Bubba Cola, Campa Cola, Carrefour Gold Cola, Casera Cola, Cassinelli, Cavan Cola, Celeste Cola, China Cola (the export variant of Future Cola) , Classic Cola, Club Cola, Coca-Cola, Cockta, Cola Cola, Cola Lacaye, Cola Turka, Cole Cold, Corsica Cola , Count Cola , Cricket Cola, Cuba Cola, D’Africa Cola, Double Cola, El Che Cola, Euro Shopper Cola, Evoca Cola, Export Cola, Fada Cola, Faygo Cola, Freeway Cola, Frescolita, Fritz-kola, Fruti Kola, Fuji-Cola, Future Cola (Future will be better), Go2 Cola, Goya Cola Champagne (this is my absolute favorite brand though it doesn't contain any champagne or other alcoholic beverage), Harboe Cola, Hermann-Kola, Inca Kola, Isaac Kola, Jaz Cola, Johnnie Ryan Cola, Jolly Cola, Jolt Cola, Jones Cola, Kawther Cola, Kiri Cola, Kitty Cola (Hello Kitty must have a cola), Kofola, Kola Inglesa, Kola Real, Kola Román, Kola Shaler, Kristal Kola, LA Ice Cola, Latin Cola, Le Cola (best with le BigMac), Like Cola, Mecca Cola, Mr. Cola, MyCola, OK Cola, Olvi Cola, Open Cola, Quick Cola, Parsi Cola, Peru Cola, Pakola, Parsi Cola, Pepsi Cola, Pirkka Cola, Polo-Cockta, Pop Cola, Premium Cola, Quibla Cola, Rally Cola, Rainbow Cola, RC Cola, Red Cola, Red Bull Cola, Red Rock Cola, Rio Cola, Rola Cola, Safeway Select Cola, Sam’s Choice Cola, Schin Cola, Schweppes Cola, Shasta Cola, Sinalco Cola, Star Cola, Super Drink, Swiss Cola, Tab, Teem Cola, Thums Up, Triple Cola, Tropicola, TuKola, Ubuntu Cola, Uro Cola, Vess Cola, Virgin Cola, Vita-Cola, White Rock Cola, XL Cola, Zam Zam Cola, Zelal Cola, Zesto Cola, Zevia Natural Cola.