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28 July 2008, Cervera de los Montes
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.
                                  

23 July 2008, Cervera de los Montes
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.
                           

21 July 2008, Cervera de los Montes
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.
              

08 July 2008, Cervera de los Montes
I'm dreaming of a Thermomix - the most advanced kitchen robot that is used not only by house wifes but also many molecular techno emocional top chefs including Ferran Adriá. Terraza de Casino's Paco Roncero said in a recent interview that he has 12 of them. Thermomix TM 31 chops, beats, mixes, whips, spanks, grinds, kneads, minces, grates, juices, blends, heats, stirs, steams and weighs food. It does almost everything but I hope it doesn't eat the
I've planned with Dida a Molotov cocktail intervention at FIT in Berlin in September but now I think that I'm going to propose him to do a performance with a Thermomix. I could cook for the audience some delicious Canneloni filled with sarin and Ebola stuffed turkey
                

04 July 2008, Cuenca
Now people are pondering their summer holiday destinations and I listed my favorite places, though Cuenca is one of the most beautiful towns on the earth. The 4th of July is the Independence Day of the United States of America - a realized utopia - and, admittedly, it influenced a little in my list. Arcadia, Avalon, Hesperia, Eden, Aaru, Elysium, Empyrean, Neorxnawang, Xanadu, El Dorado, Ciudad de los Césares, Shangri-La, Shambhala, Atlantis, Utopia, Neverland, New Jerusalem, America, Fortunate Isles, Guantanamo Bay.
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