I was chatting with a colleague and she said that it's difficult to find motivation to make new work when she has no exhibition dates set and the the studio storage is full of unsold and unexhibited pieces. I feel free when I'm working without deadlines. The big projects of this year have been done. My calendar is almost empty and I have time to spend at the studio thinking and working.

Many of my works don't go to shows immediately after being finished, some of them stay several years stored before I find the right context, concept and place to exhibit them. Good art works are related to their moment but they are not like political cartoons, that make sense in today's newspaper but are illegible next year.

My favorite recipients of Nobel Peace Prize: Henry Kissinger (1973), Menachem Begin (1978), Yitzhak Rabin (1994), Shimon Peres (1994), Jimmy Carter (2002), Barack Obama (2011), , European Union (2012).

My favorite recipients of Lenin Peace Prize: Paul Robeson (1952), Pablo Neruda (1953), Bertolt Brecht (1954), W.E.B Du Bois (1959), Pablo Picasso (1962), Fidel Castro (1961), Oscar Niemeyer (1963), Dolores Ibárruri (1964), Rafael Alberti (1964), Salvador Allende (1972), Mikis Theodorakis (1972), Angela Davis (1978), Nelson Mandela (1990).

Some people think that artist's job is glamorous and maybe some of my colleagues do live glittering life but mine is often more like working class style. I'm about to leave home from Barcelona where I've been since Sunday installing my exhibition at Cyan Gallery and some works also at Swab Art Fair. We've worked everyday about 12 hours, I dreamed of having one free morning or afternoon to walk by the Mediterranean and visit the museum of contemporary art but we finished the details of the show 40 minutes before the opening reception. However, the inauguration night was fun, all the galleries had organized together a party at the roof deck of Hotel Alma and then Cyan Gallery's director Olivier took me to the the most fashionable Japanese restaurant in town. Then we had a drink at a fetish drag queen bar. So finally I had my moment of art stardom but today I feel that though I'd still liked to see the sea, I need to see even more my kids, so I hit the road and drive back to Spain to be at home for the dinner time.

I still have to buy few super size jars of Nutella but the rest of things are ready to go to Barcelona for my show Capitalistes Sans Frontières at Cyan Gallery. I'll paint a mural and exhibit a selection of small and big drawings. The show will include for the first time a bigger survey of my object works.

It's going to be a hard week both physically and mentally. I drive 800 kilometers to Catalonia transporting my fragile works. The mural takes a couple of days to complete and at the same time with the solo show we must set up also the gallery's booth at SWAB art fair. The fair opens on Thursday and my Capitalistes on Friday.

I'm looking forward my second time in Barcelona. The first time was twenty years ago on Inter Rail with my girlfriend. We spent a week in the city and were robbed three times, once by a junkie armed with a blood filled syringe and needle placed in the distance of few millimeters from my arm. I've never been mugged after that. Maybe we were just too innocent looking teenagers or the Catalan capital city is the most dangerous place I've visited.

The leader of the Communist Party of Finland JP Väisänen asked me to be a candidate for a member of parliament in the next elections that will be hold in few months.

Finland uses open list elections which means that voters choose a particular candidate in a list. The ballot goes to the party but the votes for each candidate designate their order in the list. This means that the parties want to have celebrities and socialites in their roster. Every candidate campaigns for himself and the biggest rivals are those in the same party. For example in Spain the lists are closed, the candidates are numbered before the elections and the top aspirant competes of prime minister's post.

I joined the Communist Party of Spain two years ago. That was a big step for me. Finally, being politically open didn't change the contents of my ambiguous art but did cause me some problems, all public and private funding for my artistic activities stopped immediately.

I feel very flattered for the confidence of the Finnish comrades but I think I'm not ready to go deeper into the politics. I don't have charisma of a politician, I don't like to say to people what they want to hear but the contrary - I hit where it really hurts. I'm too irreverent and too unforeseeable (not least to myself) and I don't have any flexibility to compromise.

I believe that I serve the people and the revolution best as artist.