I was born in Odessa, Texas, to Linda and Albert Castillo. Childhood was full of neighborhood adventures with friends, weird movies, and backyard BBQs with family. From an early age, I loved to draw and color, especially elaborate evening gowns and dramatic figures pulled from my imagination.

Art became a deeper part of my emotional world after my parents divorced when I was thirteen. During my teenage years, I spent long hours teaching myself oil painting, creating crude but heartfelt pieces inspired by psychedelic imagery, astrology, dreams, and emotion.

I attended Permian High School before moving to Houston at seventeen, where I graduated from Klein High School. After graduation, I worked various service industry jobs while attending Lone Star College, studying psychology and completing my basics.

In 2008, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I spent six years balancing work and classes at Austin Community College (ACC) while slowly discovering the kinds of environments and people that inspired me most. During that time, I worked as a waitress, as well as at the wellness-focused juice bar Juiceland, and as an office assistant for a psychology professor at ACC.

Those years were layered with observation, creativity, and learning how differently people carry their worlds.

My primary academic focus became environmental science, eventually leading me to become president of the environmental sustainability organization Students for Environmental Outreach.

Later, I moved to San Antonio and worked for an electric company before making one of the biggest shifts of my life: joining the United States Navy as an active-duty Mass Communication Specialist in 2016.

Military life carried me across deployments, duty stations, and a wondrous variety of places and personalities. My travels during those years took me through Illinois, Maryland, California, Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, New Mexico, Louisiana, back to Texas, and eventually to Stuttgart, Germany, where I worked as a radio DJ, broadcaster, and operations manager with AFN Stuttgart before separating from active duty service in early 2026.

Along the way, I developed skills in photography, video production, journalism, graphic design, broadcasting, and media storytelling. I learned how to communicate information, but more importantly, how to curate atmosphere, emotion, and feeling through multimedia.

During my military career, I also completed my bachelor’s degree in communication at Arizona State University.

Dreamcraft Galaxy grows from all of these chapters.

It is a space for creative work, visual storytelling, writing, media, evolving ideas, and the liminal places where metamorphosis lives. A digital archive of curiosity, creativity, memory, and the strange beauty of my journey.