James Bond, Castelloland in Hand Carved Frame presents framed Hollywood icon photography where spy legend enters artist's constructed universe—archival Bond image digitally intervened creating surreal narrative where 007 exists in Paloma's personal realm rather than original film context. Castello gives life to past Hollywood icon through digital editing creating atmosphere between reality (recognizable Bond figure) and fiction (Castelloland's surreal additions). The one-of-a-kind hand-carved frame emphasizes object's uniqueness fundamental to narrative: each image reacting through interaction between word (Bond mythology), object (archival photograph), and artist's surreal romantic intervention. This work embodies autofiction—inherited cultural icon becoming raw material for experimental character's world-building, evoking emotions about how untouchable legends become malleable within contemporary surreal vision, Bond transcending temporal boundaries entering Castelloland's parallel universe through archival pigment photography oscillating between fiction and reality.
Discover a captivating homage to sophistication with "James Bond, Castelloland in One of a Kind Hand Carved Frame, Photography". Paloma Castello presents to us a nostalgia-filled body of work. The collection represents the soul of her proposal: inherited objects discovered or found that have become the tip of the iceberg of her past. These are elements she collects, recollects and then classifies following a method that frames her anachronic attitude that proves as evidence of the youth of her art. She also demonstrates that the experimentations on herself are common in an artist who’s just beginning her career. Castelloland works with objects whose uniqueness proves to be fundamental to the piece’s narrative in each story because each piece reacts and happens through the word and object interaction.
Hollywood icon photography presenting James Bond in Castelloland—hand-carved frame containing surreal digital intervention. From Castelloland by Paloma Castello. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Hollywood Icon Photography – James Bond Frame, 2015 by Paloma Castello
James Bond, Castelloland in One of a Kind Hand Carved, 2015
From the series Castelolland
Digital photographs on glossy pearlescent paper in one of kind hand-carved frame.
Dimensions:
Print size: 27.7 H x 19.8 W in.
Frame size 30.5 H x 23.75 W x 1 D in.
Edition 3/3 + 1AP
Framed
Paloma Castello’s body of work brings life to a different narrative to an object’s past. She is interested in playing with memory and relating it to the present, creating an atmosphere between reality and fiction. Her family and social background have a powerful influence on her work, she was surrounded by objects and anecdotes inherited from her ancestors, those objects inspire endless surreal stories. Her work emerges from these experiences; they are evidence of her “auto-fiction”.
