Libreta de Notas are a series of pieces made of ink and pencil on paper, in which Castillo explores reminiscences of modernist designs in order to understand and reconstruct his country’s aesthetic heritage.
When discussing the series, the artist says: “I decided to show my work process and the tools that I use in the daily research as an artwork itself. I am not a designer, and I don't try to be either, however I pretend to use every one of my artworks as a means to get closer to everything that interests me and particularly to all this imaginery which remains as a vague memory into the Cuban design and aesthetic history.
In some way I feel the need to get into the skin of this [fictional] man, a modest collector of objects, images and legacies, a character I decided to interpret.”
