My work has hints of ancestral, historical symbolism. Though I manipulate materials, I enjoy maximizing their beauty by presenting them minimally altered yet in no way denying or changing their identity. Materials are selected for their historical relevance and presented larger than life, embodying multiple layers of meaning. The work becomes an aesthetic statement, social commentary, homage to ancestors, and conceptual storytelling.

Oppositional tensions are created sculpturally with the familiar viewed unfamiliarly.

I attempt to charge space with a poetic elegance. Potently raw, silently strong. .

CASTILLO