Ayrton "Gary" Ferreria dos Santos Jr. is a performance artist who has for at least 16 years installed flower designs around and within the "Imagine" mosaic of Central Park

Central Park

Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...

 in New York City

New York City

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. His work has been documented in the New York Post

New York Post

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. Dos Santos' income comes from the tips he receives from tourists as a result of his work, and the three-minute monologue he delivers to tourists, that describes his work and the life of John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

and his family.

Gary is the subject of a documentary film, The Mayor of Strawberry Fields, directed by Torre Catalano and distributed by Nehst Studios.

External links

• YouTube Video of his monologue
• The Mayor of Strawberry Fields documentary film