I’m planing a series of monochrome paintings but without any reference to Malevitch, Rodchenko or other heroes of modernism. I’m not involved with art about art and I don’t use any art historical tricks. In addition, I think that abstract art is sinister. My monochromes would be titled Severe (a red painting), High (an orange painting), Elevated (a yellow painting), Guarded (a blue painting) and Low (a green painting). The title of the series would be HSAS, which stands for Homeland Security Advisory System,  a color coded terrorism threat advisory scale used by the government of the United States.

Other scheme for my monochromes could be Rainbow Herbicides series with the titles Agent Orange, Agent Purple, Agent Pink, Agent Green, Agent Blue and Agent White. The Rainbow Herbicides is a name given to a plethora of chemicals used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Nevertheless, maybe its too parachronistic theme and I should stick to the the current events.

When Radovan Karadžić looked like Radovan Karadžić? When he was an intellectual Sarajevo psychiatrist and poet, when he was the architect of the Srebrenica genocide (the story tells that during the killings he was reading poetry), when he was  hiding in the Montenegrin monasteries writing children’s stories, or when he was living under the alias Dr. Dragan Dabić and practiced as a witch doctor in a private alternative clinic in Belgrade? In this last phase, His appearance was totally different than in the early 90's presidential pictures, now he had a big beard, long white hair and enormous glasses.

Sometimes the false appearance is the substance. The airy grey hair was fake. The charismatic look was fake. The poems where fake. Surgeons are not supposed to mutilate people, the psychiatrists are not supposed to drive nations crazy. It’s much more proper for a witch doctor, a curandero - what Mr. Karadžić always was. Not very surpsingly, in his medical studies he specialized in personality disorders.

The German super artist Gerhard Richter has his Atlas and I’m making now an Encyclopedia - a collection of past, present and future source images for my drawing and other works. In the first stage, Riiko Sakkinen’s Encyclopedia will be a slide projection. The first edition will consists of 1000 images but the final version to be published in 2041 will feature 50.000 pictures in 50 printed volumes.

Denis Diderot, the father of the first modern Encyclopedia in 1751, wrote that his aim was to change the way people think. To achieve this he stated that all things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Some articles in my Encyclopedia: Agent Orange, Burger King, Cuba libre, Döner Kebab, Escort Service, Fataway or Food Crisis, Gazprom, HP Sauce, Instant Ramen, Jelly Belly, Kolokol-1, Lidl, Mus ard Gas, Naughty School Girl, Overdose, Pop Tart, Q Tonic Water & Bombay Gin, Rape the Enemy, Strawberry Flavor (Artificial), Tomato Ketchup, Uzi, Viva la Republique Banania, Warlord, Xanadu, Yellow Fever, Zyklon B.

A while ago, I got an intriguing message from a 17-year-old girl I had met briefly. She wanted to have one of my medium size paintings. “I’m thinking what kind of a deal to propose you. I’d like to trade your painting to something X but I’m not sure if I have anything what could make you happy. If there’s anything you want, don’t hesitate to tell me it”, she wrote.

I know that many young girls are willing to do almost anything for a wrap of cocaine or a bag of Louis Vuitton but I was astonished that they do it also for art. I love the idea that somebody wants my art so much. Unfortunately, it seems that my art works attract only very young art lovers that don’t have cash to buy them. I need more mature millionaires!

Utopia is a name for an ideal society, taken from the title of the famous book written in 1516  by Thomas More describing a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect social and political system. Since then, the term has been used to describe communities that attempt to create an ideal society. Utopia is sometimes used pejoratively, in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible to achieve.

In Greek, utopia means no place but surprisingly it has a multiple existence – there are places called Utopia in the Australian Northern Territory and in Florida, Ohio, New York and Texas in the United States of America but the most mind-blowing location must be Utopia Mobile Home Park in North Carolina. Once, America was an utopia but in ended up being omnipotent trailer trash.