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HK CURRY FLAVOR CUP NOODLE ROBOT IN HELSINKI
11 November 2009, Helsinki
I'm painting a mural in Hotel Klaus K's Envy Plus Suite that will be renamed Sakkinen Suite on Friday when my work is finished. A huge Hong Kong Curry Flavor Cup Noodle Robot on the wall envies both traditional and contemporary Finnish food, from mykyrokka to pizza Berlusconi. Marc made clear that everything must be politically correct and I understand that. If you want total artistic freedom, you paint canvases in your studio, not wall in hotel rooms. What I like in this project, is doing my first permanent wall painting that is not painted over after an exhibition.
WHOM I THINK OF WHEN I MASTRUBATE IN HOTELROOMS
05 November 2009, Cervera de los Montes
Cheryl Cole, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Britney Spears, Keeley Hazell, Adriana Lima, Elisha Cuthbert, Kristin Kreuk, Anna Friel, Freida Pinto, Ana Ivanovic, Abbey Clancey, Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Kate Beckinsale, Summer Glau, Frankie Sandford, Marisa Tomei, Thandie Newton, Zoe Salmon, Natalie Portman, Olga Kurylenko, Katy Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Ali Larter, Jessica Biel, Hayden Panettiere, Eliza Dushku, Eva Mendes, Louisa Lytton, Amber Heard, Gemma Arterton, Diora Baird, Konnie Huq, Doutzen Kroes, Keira Knightley , Kimberley Walsh, Jennifer Metcalfe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Carla Bruni, Eva Longoria, Marissa Miller, Rihanna, Rachel Stevens, Maria Sharapova, Jessica Jane Clement, Emma Watson, Kelly Brook, Holly Valance, Alessandra Ambosio, Katie Melua, Georgie Thompson, Charlize Theron, Amii Grove, Isabel Lucas, Miranda Kerr, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts, Beyonce Knowles, Nicole Scherzinger, Alexa Chung, Alesha Dixon, Jessica Simpson, Madeline Zima, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Garner, Vanessa Hudgens, Odette Yustman, Malin Akerman, Heidi Klum, Hilary Duff, Kristen Bell, Emily Blunt, Holly Willoughby, Kate Moss, Taylor Swift, Christina Hendricks, Emma Willis, Katherione Jenkins, Emily Scott, Gemma Atkinson, Katherine Heigl, Michelle Ryan, Victoria Pendleton, Carmen Electra, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Harding, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lily Allen, Lisa Snowdon, Christine Bleakley, Billie Piper, Ellen Page, Evangeline Lilly, Rachel Riley, Gemma Bissix, Dannii Minogue, Fiona Bruce, Lindsay Lohan, Mischa Barton and my wife.
Next Monday, I fly to Helsinki to paint an Envy plus Suite of Hotel Klaus K, so I'm going to spend almost all the next week alone in a hotel room. It's not going to be as lonely as usually - Jani sleeps and paint another room in the hotel.
IN MY SHOES
03 November 2009, Cervera de los Montes
A while ago, I got a peculiar request, I was asked to donate my shoes to a museum. Belgian Veerle Swenters and Pierre Bogaerts have been collecting artists' shoes for 20 years, including footwear from Martin Kippenberger and Georg Baselitz, and they have a stunning museum building in Kruishoutem, Belgium.
Now I'm waiting for UPS to collect my old pair of Brazilian Dupe flipflops, that I really never used because I hate the thong passing between the toes. First, my idea was to send there my old Campers that I've used for painting a couple of years but I found out that I had already thrown them away - I really didn't think that they could be worth of something and even end up in a permanent museum collection. Maybe it would have been more courageous to send just the jandals but I added a framed ad of a Brazilian prostitute- almost all services, home and hotel visits. Sounds like me.
TROPICAL SOLITUDE
30 October 2009, Chaaya Island
I’m watching Banglavision soap operas and Aljazeera news and some sport channels are still showing the Copa del Rey humiliation of Real Madrid - their worst game in the 104 years of the club history. I’m bathing in the turquoise sea. I’m reading Hertha Müller’s Even Back Then, the Fox Was the Hunter, Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park and Simon Montefiore’s Sashenka. I’m eating alone the breakfast, the lunch and the dinner watching cute Korean honeymooners, tanned Australian surfers and overweight American middle class families in the other tables. I think the waiters watch my solitude with pity. It’s my last day in this boring paradise and tomorrow I travel back home via Male, Colombo, Frankfurt and Madrid. I’d love to say that I’ll never travel again, or at least for a long time, but after a week at home, I’m flying to Helsinki. Last week I was buying summer clothes for the Maldivian heat and now I have to buy winter clothes for the Nordic icy weather.
RAINING IN THE PARADISE
28 October 2009, Chaaya Island
When the Christian missionaries went to Siberia they tried to make the people to fear the hell, an oven-like torture created in the Middle East, but the Nenets and the Enets thought it sounded at least as good as sauna. Sometimes I feel that I'm living somebody else's life and now I'm in somebody else's dream resort that to me is like Devil's Island Penal Colony. It's raining in the paradise, as Manu Chao sings. I did today my T-shirt painting workshop for the surfers that are competing here. I wanted them to paint slogans on the t-shirts but the results are terribly poor. One of the surfers made it clear: he would like to paint a t-shirt but he has nothing to say. I heard ne surfer speaking about something else than waves, he gave his opinions about the global warming stating that it's bullshit.
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