Simo's trips

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20 02 1974 Bari Italy autodidact artist plastic arts, paintings and installations expos: 2000 kunst Tour, Maastricht (Open atelier day) 2001 Kunst Tour, Maastricht (Open atelier day) 2002 Kunst Tour, Maastricht (Open atelier day) 2003 Kunst tour, Maastricht (Open atelier day) Nonstop Madrid (FAIM) 2005 Bangkok Selection in Daimler Crysler CAC, Maastricht 2006 Halte à Hanoi, at l'Espace in Hanoi, Vietnam Installations & Decos from Oct 1999 to May 2000 The ZoO in Sittart, NL Nov 1999 The Bunker, Groningen, NL from Oct 2000 to May 2001 The House of God in Maastricht Dec 2000 The House of God on the Move, in 013, Tilburg Oct 2002 The House of God, Platte Zaol, Maastricht Art Residence around the World Nov 2004 to Jul 2005 Bangkok Nov 2005 to May 2006 Hanoi Jan 2007 to May 2007 Dakar

Thursday, December 16, 2004

we are stardust

well, finnally I hit the beach, it took me 1 month!
in the paradise where I am at the moment I spend my days on this huge beach, the heat of the sun in the morning, the beautifull breathing of the sea, so much I longed to hear it again, clean from any other noise, no cars, no histeria, few tourists, very far and very quite, the locals are relaxed and proud of this land of thiers, I can hardly believe how lucky one must be to find a place like this
and at night the wonders muliply, from here you can see I am sure every single star of this part of the universe! the sky is on party!! falling stars everytime you look, not even the time to make a wish and you see another one! and when you look again down at the see you see more stars! the water is full of plancton that glows at night and when I walk on the sand my foot print glows like a little unverse! 3 days ago I could not believe my eys, I never thought something so beautifull could exist...
so wel I would include some pictures of this, but I confess it's preatty hard to think about downloading stuff when you are watching the sunset on the hangmat, if you know what I mean!
Ah more good news!! I am learning to play the stick and its finally going somewhere!! yhippiee! now I can have fun with more toys...hihihiihi
here there is everthing, and I mean everything I need to be happy, and for that I am very thankfull.

Monday, December 06, 2004

th kings birthday

The 5th of dec it's the Thai King's birthday and I have been invited to join a volunteering week end, nothing else then doing a fire show in a school in the province of canchanabury, so at 7.00 am on the 4th of Dec I was waiting for my lift to the place with Poppy, Deo and Hiro, Hiro is a japanese guy that plays fire pois very good. When we arrived after the long journey in the back of a pick up me and Hiro were sun burnt, of course but the worse is that we were invited to join the thai style party....which means drink and eat for 36hrs no stop!
what is really creazy is that it was a very poor area and we were there to give the people the primary goods, like rise, blankets and shoes, but nobody told me earlier so I found myself distributing goods (that i never had to buy)to very very poor people that had to queue to allow the photogrphers to take good pictures of the event....!!!it was a little too much to be honest...felt really imbarassed. I started to ask myself why people do charity, I think some do it for vanity, so I guess I ended up to be part of a vanity charity event ..ugh! well at least the people have something to eat the next days, but not thanx to me!!
tha good part of the experience was that I got very close to Poppy and Deo, and Hiro too, we were really a good team and during the night (while the others were keeping karaoking and drinking whisky and eating wild pork rosted on a wood, uhmmm) I slept with Poppy on the back of the pick up, the sky was absolutely marvellous and I thought I could see every single star of the damned universe!! and during the night it was so moist it was like lying in a swimming pool, but Deo and the others (cant name them all) were so caring they would come from time to time to give me o Poppy a blanket or to make sure that the blanket was well wrapped around me, and the nice thing is that I had to ask nothing, it seemed like they were anticipating rather then reacting.
On the way back I felt a lot of affection for the collegues of this adventure and I still do, of course it was good to do the show and help the poor but the real enrichment has been the feelings i shared with the boys, I remembered what I like of asian people....

deo and the kids


deo and the kids, originally uploaded by piccola ala.