In Castillo’s short stories, people in Chicago are often trying to unearth dark hidden truths.
She’s said reviewers have been characterizing her stories as about Mexicans “going back and forth.” But whereas “customary migration is them coming here to find ‘a better life,’ I found it interesting, and this wasn’t intentional, my characters go north to south — but move up in status. My family here didn’t have a pool or housekeeper. In Mexico, that might have been.”
She’s working on her next novel, “Isabel 2121,” using a related calculus: “There’s the future and past living simultaneously, based on string theory. So you have characters 500 years in the future, and characters at the conquest of Mexico, 500 years ago. It’s dystopian in 2121 and, for my ancestors, conquest was dystopian.”The 20 pieces on display in River North are a sliver of hundreds of similar drawings she made in the past decade.
Yes, the lines. Thin and tight and parallel, and there are so many of them, arranged into geometric blocks, swirling, like dizzying rabbit holes constructed of angular pinwheels.“It does seem I have gone mad,” Castillo said. “I did ask people if it seemed like I went mad here. They said, ‘No, not at all.’ They said it was ‘discipline.’” She drew the works freehand with a Sharpie and only occasionally employed a ruler. “‘Discipline’ doesn’t mean anything.
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