I chilled for ten years at the coffee shop here. I followed through few generations, now Era and her friends are the youngest generation… nothing, I took walks, sometimes I… I want to tell you two stories. One day, when my older daughter Toska was little, my father asked her, ‘What does your father do?’ And she was wondering what her father does, ‘What does your father do?’ He was trying to help her, you know, to say a piktor [painter], and he said, ‘Pi – pi – p…’ She said, ‘Pijanec’ [A drunk] (laugh) and the other one, I am telling you what my second daughter told her teacher, that’s what I did ten years in a row. When her teacher asked her, ‘What does your father do?’ She said, ‘He has fun.’ (laugh)

Sokol Beqiri was born in 1964 in Peja, Kosovo. He studied at the University of Ljubljana in the Department of Graphic Arts. Beqiri is a well-known contemporary artist. The best-known of his works is his series The End of Expressionism: Painted by a Madman (2001), which includes the projects Milka (2000) and When Angels are Late (2001). Beqiri has exhibited in many European art institutions and was part of important exhibitions, including Documenta 14.