Diptych. Tropicarios #5 and #8, 2017 | theartdesignprojecthttps://static.wixstatic.com/media/97588f_c0849ccd87244265868fdf3d0ecd7508~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_500,h_500,q_90/file.jpgThe Art Design ProjectThe Art Design Project promotes the intersection of art and design by representing the works of emerging and established artists and photographers. Similar to the travel logs of the ancient explorers, in her diaries, Castello portrays the landscapes and settings witnessed during several visits to the Colombian tropics, along with texts that describe what she saw and experienced there. Unconcerned with producing a reliable account of the places visited, these journals are instead a cartographic guide to the artist’s sensations in those places. Unable to separate the experience from what is perceived, her lens becomes a true superposition of imagination and reality. Cowboys, dinosaurs, cars, surfers, mountains, stones, palm trees... At first glance, these elements don't seem to have much in common, but as one's gaze delves deeper into the details it is possible to step inside a universe that seems nearer. The protagonists come alive and the separate elements form part of a nature suggesting autonomy as if these landscapes or scenarios actually existed and had been photographed.https://static.wixstatic.com/media/97588f_c0849ccd87244265868fdf3d0ecd7508~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_500,h_500,q