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El Sentinel

Obed Gómez’ Art Is A Work In Progress

By Kate Santich

October 20, 2002
Copyright © 2002 El Sentinel.

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Different strokes.

(MATT STROSHANE/FOR THE SENTINEL)

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When Obed Gómez was still a baby in Puerto Rico, his grandmother watched him lying in his crib and pronounced: "This child will become a man who works with his hands."

The boy seemed mesmerized by the movement and shape of his fingers to a degree unusual even for infants.

Sure enough, by the time he was 3, he began drawing with such amazing skill that others began to predict, too.

This child would become an artist, they said.

But even those with precocious talent do not necessarily march a straight path in life.

Obed Gómez would need three decades, a move to Orlando, a spiritual awakening and the love and support of his wife, Sarah Lloyd-G&