A recent event series hosted by artist Diana Shpungin prompted me to revisit some "human alphabets" I made in the past. These are conceptually somehow related to my Alphabet Clock work but are totally different as well. The first one I made was for a mural at Karlin studios, Prague as part of my God Objects exhibition there in 2020, then I made a typeface out of this idea for a group exhibition at Low Gallery in Riga also in 2020. Also recently stumbled into a post on the Public Domain Review collecting Human Alphabets from the past.
You can download my fonts here

Photos from concert (and preparation) with Aleksis Luriņš, for Sonia Rosa Khan's installation at The Boiler in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I think my favorite concert of the recent past; also me and Aleksis, together with Kaspars Groševs, have a band called Zolitūde, that is active when I am in Riga. We are slowly making our second album, songs from which me and Aleksis took as a starting point for our show. But they became something else as it was just the two of us, and we both decided to play bass guitar. We maanged to record everything quite well and I think there is good material there for its own release :)

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Had an interesting conversation / realization about the connection between chronic pain and inner worlds. It's kind of an obvious relationship but I never put the two together so directly. Back during my chronic pain episodes of 2005, 2011, 2015, so much of my inner world was developed and in turn shaped what kind of work I made, what I was interested in. I think chronic pain formed that cavernous interiority, which is a topic that I have been curious to explore more about in general (our subjective realities). Doing some research I'm starting to find interesting vocabulary and terminology to give language to some of these curiosities which I haven't dug too deep into, in an academic way..

"This means that the overwhelming pain has an enduring effect on her enworlded (and also narrative) self as soon as the minimal self allows the rest of her existence to, so to say, appear on stage again. The lived body is anchored in the minimal self but it stretches out into the enworlded aspects of selfhood"

"If the enworlded self is broken, restricted, and alienated by chronic pain, it is so mainly in the domains of the meaning-structures of the lifeworld that refer to work and family life, including, of course, close-others outside the family and further interests than the ones represented by one's profession"

"If the work-world and the family-world are broken or even closed down by the experience of chronic pain, one should also add that a new territory of the lifeworld appears to open up, the 'patient-world]'"

From this article - The importance of enworlded selfhood for understanding chronic pain-related suffering

My sketchbook that is included in the exhibition Embodied Thought at The Latvian National Museum of art. There's drawings of plans, brainstorms, doodles of installations, sketches for paintings, random fantasies.. it is shown opened up to a spread but its contents are projected as a video slideshow along with other artists, in the space.

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Artilērijas iela

Grīzīnkalns, Lielie Kapi, Gaujas pagalms...

Observational sketches from Riga...Several monuments - Grīziņkalnā, Lielos kapos

Combined views from a bunch of perspectives - Tallinas, Miera, Gaujas pagalmā...

Observational sketch from Riga - Krāsotāju iela- impossible perspective (combining two views)

Met Juris Lesnik while participating in the Dagda festival for Architecture, Art and Music.. incredible artist, truly mind breaking stuff. Found his YouTube channel. His sculptures are like magic, combining math, topology and some sense of wonder. He lives just outside of Dagda, in a big house full of ongoing projects. His work also resonated really well with the other works in the exhibition, especially Jānis Dzirnieks, one of the exhibition's co-organizers. The show itself, which was up for a month in the town of Dagda at an abandoned Post Office building taken over by organizers of the festival, is very solid - more info here, a few images above. I think I made memories to last me at least a few years in this week.

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The clouds in the Baltics are so dramatic... Photos from summer 2026.

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Discovery at the Latvian National Museum of Art exhibition group exhibition Embodied Thought : Pēteris Kārkliņš.

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Architecture & details in Riga.

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The view from 1 Vanderbilt Avenue..Good to remember that this view is totally insane! Also so much to see that is invisible from the street level.. who is it all for??

RIP to my friend, inspiration and boss(!) Ken Jacobs. I had the pleasure of working for Ken for the last 4 years, helping him make his amazing films & eternalisms. I didn't have a deep knowledge of Ken's work before working for him, but Ken's passion, amazing work ethic and deep dedication to film rubbed off on me. Ken wanted to work all the time! Even on his birthday - I was asking him.. are you sure you don't want to relax? No, he said, he ESPECIALLY wanted to work on his birthday.

I was also so lucky to have Ken contribute his voice to the film Alice, Bob, Carol and David from 2025.

I sometimes wrote down what Ken said while we were working, because so much of it I found profound and very funny. I wanted to share this list of quotes:

Ken Jacobs quotes (edited) 2022-2025


Old age is the age of looking for things.

We’re creating a replacement for drugs.

New York is not a symphony, it is a hodge podge.

I am so scared of AI.

This dump heap is a masterpiece.

Someday I’ll be known for knowing you,

I don’t think people realize how cosmic things are.

These are monuments for the momentary (about the Eternalisms)

It is important to leave some imperfections so people don’t confuse this for reality.

I think we’re making something that is worth something.

You’re lucky to be able to curse in 4 languages.

Is New York the most scrawled on city that you know of?

We need a funeral parlor for food.

I may not have a style but I have my predictions.

I am guaranteed to do this eternally.

Posterity, you better like this. We’re giving you a gift.

We are living in a submersible life, in a sea of advertising.

You are doing the impossible.

Get rid of that dot, it’s come between us and perfection.

Art is artificial.

I am not against spatial aberrations.

I want people to mention that these undulating images are beautiful.

I think I’m a sucker for New York.

The sensible things and the insensible things are equally good.

Fanstastic…Fake Fake Fake.

If you fix it any more it’ll look like life.

You’re an eternalismist.

This is a challenge to science.

Someday AI will run for president.

Humans are weird.

What is there of New York that I have failed to picture?

On the appeal of illusion:
All our lives we struggle with the real. What is real, safe, threatening, it’s the first diversion to recognize the illusion, something that seems real but is not. There is always delusion. We welcome the illusion of god, angels, well.. I hate delusion. Film is a partial illusion. Films are manufactured dreams. In my childhood we had to go to a theater - a special place - you knew it was a special occasion. Now kids can see movies as easily as reality. I can see it being confusing.

Everyday we do the impossible.

I was showering and saw myself and was happy to see that I have a young body.

The 3rd dimension is so meaningful in conveying reality.

I accept all reality.

I’m sure many geniuses have been wasted.

Reality is something else.

You’re caught in the life of life.

Was that music? Just thought it was someone yelling.

A lot of street signs are just crazy, they’re not communicating anything.

The clock is not fair.

Things are good, I have coffee, working with you, made a new film, I’m 91. Not bad.

I took a shower, a wonderful invention.

I am the only one who knows of your contribution to these images

In one week I’ll be 91 years old. I would say that’s doing well.

2D is shorthand for dead

Someone told me yesterday I look young enough to pass for 80. I said - Who wants to pass for 80?

I look forward to borrowing money from you

I always say the same thing, but I mean it!

You're famous to me

You are performing magic

(About eternalisms) They are tough but they last forever. If there’s a world hundreds of years from now, they will be watching this

Imagine a painting of Madonna and child except Mary is looking at her phone

If i was as courageous as this woman in the middle, I would call this project Real Men Eat Ass

It’s not just a 3d image, it’s a moving 3d image.. That to my knowledge has never been done before.

You need a superhero suit, called Meticulous Man, like Super Man. It’s a joy to watch you work.

You and I are very observant people

I’m one of the real coffee drinkers of the world

New York you’ve never been photographed like this. Ive caught you in your underwear.

Is the key available to open this picture? (dreaming)

As long as I have my little world, I'm OK

What a bad idea god is.

Lets meet this fantasy with more fantasy

This is teaching me a lot of respect for the eyes, how they work simultaneously, how they work so fast to give us a stereo world.

Beauty times beauty

Strange is OK; Weird is Not.

New paintings could be:
Kind of like some of the watercolors from the Editorial show..
Different scales of patterns. City on top, intermixed .
Consider the relationship to photo references in general..
Based maybe on my diagrams and charts somehow?

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Keeping on working towards the Editorial exhibition and commuting (to RISD)

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YES this work has entered the collection of the Estonian National Museum of Art!
https://www.muis.ee/en_GB/museaalview/4794951
https://digikogu.ekm.ee/eng/fpage/search/oid-48806/?searchtype=simple&searchtext=Timofeev&offset=1

*Making art is choosing to do something that isn't “useful” with your limited time. Something that isn't necessarily functional, reduceable to .. something else. And when an exhibition involves some kind of experimentation, or an attempt to find some new ground artistically - you have to force experimentation and freedom into it, so that it is part of the working process of the show whether you have time for it or not.

Set up the telescope and saw the moon - there was an amazing moment of movement. I loved the idea that I was watching time, watching the cosmos move, right there. A celestial body moving in space, far away, to the observable eye. It was insane and moving and deeply profound.

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Set up the telescope and started doing some tests for it.

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Paris in the winter - why not?

Dream - corporation in Prague that is trailing me and where everyone is in on some kind of scheme to entrap me? Went to Hunter, Upstate.

Klaipeda.
FInished the mural and am leaving Klaipeda. Need to figure out the mockups - carpet, cover the projector structure? I can't believe I did this in 4 days! Leaving europe now - feeling very good over all! I think it was a good but intense way to end the trip - a very intense painting. Remember it wasn't new.. And will be a good experiment - a site-specific takeover, biggest mural ever?

Dream: getting stuck in a block housing downstairs , helping the kids get down from the roof...going downstairs not getting to come back up??

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Klaipeda.
I've been working on this mural, its a bit stressful having to get it to a good point in the next 2 days. But I will keep working on it. Its almost there and the more exciting part of it is for me to try the window in a window thing, and to make it part of a room within a room.

The technician I was working with said something funny - that the piece is easy to get (when referring to the passing working going in and out of the doors. Is that true? I guess there is nothing to “get”. But is has no clear message or statement or “education”. I think what I am after is a certain feeling. Feeling of being tricked by an illusion. The train station staff going in and out did tell me that they like it, in broken English and Lithuanian :).

Dream: Had a strange dream about being in my grandparents place in Plavnieki - and all of the furniture and everything was just it was but they were gone and I was alone. And I started crying.

Klaipeda.
Agency and museum acquisitions and how to move forward - feeling of it being out of my control and pure chance.

Kuldīga.
Dream: I had a dream that my grandfather Misha called me on the phone. I was aware that he wasn't alive, but I wasn’t aware that it was a dream. I am trying hard to remember what we talked about but maybe that isnt the point. The idea of him calling, reaching out.. His voice. It was real and cryptic. He spoke Russian of course and I was so surprised to hear his voice. Seems like a gift.

Kuldīga.

Book image from Saving Time, page 222.

Happiness is a half finished work, table with materials, nothing to do for the rest of the day and knowing where you are semi-going already (some kind of composition to work on), and rain..

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Kuldīga.
Importance of ritual. This man swims every day around 10am, whatever the weather (as I have witnessed). I think there is something to the daily practice - and what has been missing for my art practice is daily painting. Even on a small scale - I will start this. Playing with materials, colors, photographing the different effects mediums have, as I work on the Editorial exhibition.

Is there also something good about embracing what people are responding to and inviting for? Is that the “good” loss of control?
Sooster.. Drawing.. Make this..

Highlights from conversations with chatgpt:
Extrospective
From world making to world sensing (noticing)
Human figure is implied
as if one of your architectural or psychological diagrams has momentarily dreamed of a real place, then drifted back.
 let go of its coded language, and tried to speak in weather and shadow.

Kuldīga.
Discovered wet on wet watercolor exciting! No white.
Think on how different forms could intersect to make more “transparencies”:
Thinking about strokes and reading about Sooster:
More nature - combining city and nature? This, or the split, could be combined with buildings - perspective...

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