I first met Gabriel in Venice. He came in a white tracksuit to my studio on the Grand Canal. The sunlight was blinding white and he was dancing with some girls to Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and going through my record collection. I did not know such artists like him existed in our times. People like him are the stuff of novels. Then Gabriel is kind, wonderful, and always up to something that is way more interesting than the most of us.