The People Power Monument represents how Castrillo and how the whole country felt during the 1986 EDSA revolution— a fire burning in their insides. PHOTO BY ABBY PALMONES
“The two extremes of art are either moving or concrete. In my style, I want to consolidate and create art that is solid and yet alive and free flowing.” He tells the reporter, “Whenever I do big artworks in the Philippines, I put my artistry aside and feel more as a social being … a social being with the responsibility of educating or orienting a great number of people.”