1. What is your first name: Gerardo
2. What city are you from: Trinidad
3. What country are you from: Cuba
4. What do you do: Painter for the last 10 years
5. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why: Travel to Brazil to watch a soccer game there and to get with some Brazilian women (who he thinks they are hot!).
6. What’s your dream and why: Wish to one day display my art work in a large gallery, so that I could sell more paintings.

FOGG Notes: I met Gerardo while interviewing a lady on the street next to his shop.  At first he walked up and tried to sell me and a friend a painting but quickly stopped when he saw we were focussed with the interview with the lady.  He stepped back to his shop and watched us very intently while we were with the lady and never took his eyes off us.  When we wrapped up the quick interview we turned to walk up the street by and seen him smiling at us.  So I figured the least thing I could do was stop and see what he had to offer.  I was really surprised by his art work as it was actually quite good!  We talked for several minutes and finally I asked if it would be ok to shoot a few photos and ask him a few questions.  At first he didn’t want to do it but I told him it would be a way to display his art on the internet.  Then it was a 180 degree change of mind and I began to ask him the standard questions.

I remember at one point though when I asked him what his dream was he just looked at me with a really weird look and thought about it for a minute.  Then he said “You are asking some really hard questions you know!”  I couldn’t help but smile but told him to take his time and think it over, as there was no rush.

 

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