Fake it till you make it, also called act as if is a common catchphrase that means to imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence.

I've always thought that I shouldn't give a miserable image of myself but act like my works were selling like hot cakes. Now I just read in my own interview that I've sold lots of works to Dubai and that I was paid in several full plastic bags filled with cash. Telling untrue stories like this to journalists can be a funny game but now a friend of mine warned me that the people working for the state's treasury can read the interview too and accuse me of not reporting my incomes and avoid paying taxes on them.

Maybe I have to tell the awkward truth - Nine of my last ten solo shows sold nothing. My Syria Study Center finished yesterday in Helsinki, the same result, nothing sold. I know that most of the people don't believe this, because especially in Finland I appear often in newspapers, magazines and on TV. We tend to relate the visibility with economic success but unfortunately it's not my case. I hope that at least the treasury department believes the truth.

Jani inaugurated his show Memorial Service, with headstones of big brands, in Helsinki on Thursday but I was then already  back home in Spain. I wrote a speech and sent it to him to be given in the opening reception.

We are here to bury Capitalism. To tell the truth, we didn’t love him but after living with him all our lives, our hearts are touched when we are saying goodbye to the greatest power of the world that has been affecting every aspect of our life, thoughts, fears and
dreams. Some could call us cruel, because Capitalism is not dead – we are burying him alive.

Each of you can decide if this premature burial is accidental or intentional. An intentional vivesepulture may occur as a form of torture, murder or execution. It may also occur with consent of
the victim as a part of a stunt or as a form of suicide. The victim may also be buried by others in the mistaken assumption that they are dead.

Now, does Capitalism look dead or alive? The future will judge us. Capitalism, rest in peace.

Actually, it's not that bad not finding a direct flight from Helsinki to Madrid. I'm at the Brussels airport listening to the Soapkills' Lebanese trip hop, reading Minna Valjakka's Meany Faces of Mao Zedong and sipping a Hoegaarden beer. I bought hand-made Neuhaus chocolate pralines and Godiva dark chocolate spread for my wife. I used to work with a Belgian gallery and come here really often, then we had at home always these sweet luxuries that addicted my wife.

We love fashion, dance hall mashin'
Whiplashin', Mercedes crashin'
Egg McMuffins, stove top stuffin'
My chef, any food, it ain't nuthin'
Theme from Fannypack

Yesterday I ate an Egg McMuffin for breakfast at the Madrid Airport, then delicious Korean style pork cooked by Tuomo for a late lunch in Helsinki and finally a burger for dinner in a Finnish fast-food restaurant in Tallinn, Estonia.

This morning,  I had the first round of the Syrian battle against the war photo journalist Nilkas Meltio. Result: The secular Syrian Arab Republic 1 - the foreign supported Islamist rebellion 0. Conclusion: the mass media journalist are about as revolutionary as the servants living in the homes of the upper class. And this is why you need artists like Riiko Sakkinen.

By the way, the grand-old-man of the Finnish photo journalism Caj Bremer told me that he liked a lot the photos of my series Syrian Democracy. He was interested in the gaze of the people in the damaged election posters where sometimes only the eyes had been left intact.

I never thought that my snapshots could be interesting in the context of photography. I have never had a professional camera and I have never studied photography. Tuomo, who is one of the best photographers in Finland, got fascinated by my Syrian pictures shot with a compact camera and he invited me to speak at a gathering of the Association of the Finnish Press Photographers on Tuesday in Tallinn and F5.6 Photo Club in Helsinki. In the both of the events, I'll be in dialog with Niklas Meltio, a leading photo journalist who has been in the Aleppian front line with the Syrian Islamist rebels. He has taken propaganda photos of the FSA casualties to prepare the Western public opinion for a military invasion to Syria to destroy the secular and multicultural society. I'm sure that we we'll have an electric talk!