Date Night

Less than 48 hours after we launch Héctor Ayuso's biography, The Reason You’re Doing It at the inaugural Paradiso festival, I get a message. Its sender, someone from Mexico City now living in Mérida, tells me that he was at the venue, Sallon Gallos, on a date. He did not know about Paradiso, but found a copy and got talking to designers and artists at the festival. He tried to find me but I was busy eating at the time, unaware.

But now, he explains, this book has impacted him.

He’s been working for big IT companies, and wants to get into art. The landscape is complicated for him, but Héctor’s story is an eye-opener.

It blows my mind every time this kind of synchronicity, this serendipity plays out, in new places, in many ways.

It was Héctor himself who nodded and smiled when I asked him that, despite the darkness he had witnessed, if he believed in the power of small actions and ever decision, provided we felt it. You just never know.