Meet-A-Stranger - Interesting People Doing Interesting Things
Meet Trevor
This is Trevor and he is from England. He and his wife run Martinizing Dry Cleaning on lower Brownsboro Rd in Louisville, KY. He is not at all interested in dry cleaning but does find cars and women fascinating. He recently became a new father to a son born on September 11, 2005. The weirdest thing that anyone has ever brought into the dry cleaners to be dry cleaned was underwear. The person was a local celebrity. He cannot stand the color blue. He never wears it outside of work and would never paint a room in his house "Martinizing Blue". His favorite color is purple but he does not like to wear it. He really enjoys his job because of the customer service. Oddly he finds socializing outside of work less fun, uncomfortable and just different. One day he hopes to be able to vote in America.
Trevor was the first person that I ever interviewed. I was so nervous and was not prepared with any questions. I went on impulse and recorded the audio with a cheap dictaphone that I had been carrying around in my purse for few days. I was surprised at how willing Trevor was to let me interview him, knowing that this was not for some known magazine or newspaper. I did not see myself as a journalist, and I never wanted to become one with this project. I saw myself as an artists conducting field research, hoping to find answers that would help me understand the world and not feel as incredibly lost as I did at the time. I never wanted to go out of my way to interview specific strangers. I wanted my subjects to be regular people I encountered on an everyday basis. In a way, the people I have interviewed not only tell their own stories, but also the story of my own personal journey over of the past few years. As you can tell, I wrote the first Trevor interview as almost like he was a subject in a zoo. I did not want to put my own interpretations into any of these stories, like a journalist might typically do. The stories are just as they were told to me, brought to you so you can form you own opinions, just as I did when I met these strangers.
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