A Lifetime Journey of ART & Painting The 562 Meters Of The Seawall in Rarotonga with Gonzalo Aldana

The Kia Orana Podcast

Everyone who is creative and everyone who loves life this is a show for you. Introducing you to a beautiful human being, Mr. Gonzalo Aldana.
This was written on Gonzalo’s FB page. While researching, I found it and read it out aloud at the beginning of the show.
“Art is everywhere and that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, that when you learn to appreciate her she becomes yours and that so much you contemplate her, your eyes then belong to her. Everything is relative - I feel that paradise is not a place or a destination but a conviction! And that happiness is not something you find it is something you have to create and we need to pay attention to the moments, to the little things, we need to listen, we need to open our eyes. So that at the end of the day if there are pears or if there are apples we have to understand that we are not eternal and at the time of saying goodbye to this beautiful plain and place, and that we have total certainty that we did well in our time here. That we were there that we were part of all paradise and YES that ART is everywhere.”
How does a man from Mexico end up in Rarotonga?
“The Stars were perfectly alined to bring me here! I didn't plan to come to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Ive been travelling since 2015, and when I got here in 2020 this was my 23rd country.” Gonzalo says.
His story of arriving at 2am in the morning, for a three week holiday and waking up the next morning, walking around the island and seeing the natural beauty.
8th minute: My first mural here was a painting on a children’s primary school wall.
9th minute: Polynesian Tattoo painting the large Turtle on their wall at Punanga Nui Market. Exchanging his skill with Clive Nicholas a local Polynesian authentic tattoo artist.
13th minute: My favorite fish - The Maroro, Flying Fish and why.
14th minute: Where I’m from in Mexico City.
16th minute: Ive been an artist my whole life, and my why.
17th minute: My childhood in Mexico and my first mural painting at 12 years old.
21st minute: My 3 years studying in Graphic Design at University in Mexico from 19 to 21 years old.
22nd minute: Painting a 3D mural of ALL the walls inside a bar in Mexico.
23rd minute: My Corona painting sponsorship events deal.
24th minute: Running Night Clubs
25th minute: He’s now 41 years old.
26th minute: The 22 countries I visited in 5 years, from 2015 to 2020.
He tries to name ALL of them and said he PAINTED murals in all of them along the way. Spain-Germany-Malta-Italy-Dominican Republic-Serbia-Bulgaria-Turkey-Cyprus-Israel-Egypt-Ethiopia-Uganda-Asia-Malaysia-New Zealand then here Cook Islands.
27th minute: In Cyprus, the South Coast. He tells us about this mural he painted and why it has a SPECIAL meaning to him.
31st - 43rd minute: Since March 2022. Painting the 562 meters Seawall in Rarotonga, at the end of the airport runway. 1/2 a kilometer and working on this with Cook Islands Marine Park - Marae Moana & Seacology. He has 92 meters left to paint.
44th minute: Featuring in the Cook Islands Escape Magazine.
45th minute: Being interviewed on a Tahitian TV show.
48th minute: I asked Gonzalo to finish off the show in his native Spanish language.
A note from our guest: “Thank you to all the

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health
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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.