Finally we have an internet connection at our new home via KA-SAT satellite. The spacecraft is equipped with four multi-feed deployable antennas with enhanced pointing accuracy and a high efficiency repeater. It is configured with 82 spotbeams, making it the most advanced multi-spot satellite designed in the world to date.

Surprisingly, even some art world people don’t understand the importance an artist gives to his works. I like being generous and present small drawings to people that I work with. Most of the receivers treasure them but, unfortunately, there are different attitudes too. I gave a work to a curator who has backed me a lot many years ago. I'm still very grateful for his support but now I found out that the piece is in the permanent collection of a museum. Of course a museum is the place where I want to have my stuff placed but a gift is something extremely personal, giving it is an act of confidence. I don’t give away something with the idea that it will be sold or donated to somebody else. At least it would be correct to inform me of the movements of the work. I think also the museum could have wrote me that they have received a donation or bought the work from the secondary market. It’s not the first time that a museum forgets that behind a work there’s an artist. My works are not objects but fragments of my oeuvre, attitude and a bigger narrative than a piece of used paper.

I was drilling a hole in a wall in our new house and Securitas Direct phoned me. Though the alarm system wasn't connected they had detected vibration in the house. I never wanted to equip my my house with an alarm but our place is located in the outskirts of the village, a dream for somebody who would like to steal our art books and some paintings of our friends.

I pay a monthly fee for this Orwelian system. We have a camera even in the bedroom. My kind of people are more than happy to accept any dictatorship that promises security. We don't care about our privacy or rights - we just want to feel safe.

I had no vacation this summer but I've been out of the studio for two weeks. We moved to our new house we've been planning for many years and building over a year. It's situated in Pepino (meaning cucumber), three kilometers from Cervera de los Montes. The village was established by a an italian peasant centuries ago and, though now the municipality is very Spanish, I like the idea of living in a place of immigrants.

My studio stays in the old house and I'm going to walk or bike there. We have only one car and my wife needs it for going to her workplace. This is going to be good for my body. Many things change now in my life. I've entered to the middle class dynamics defined by a mortgage. I'm a proud home owner and slave to the bank.