RICK CASTRO: PAGAN AT THE BEACH

 9/18/2026/FRIDAY/5:50AM

RICK CASTRO: PAGAN ON THE BEACH 2001
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model- Arian Levanael 

<11x8”, archival digital print, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: PAGAN ON THE BEACH 2001
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model- Arian Levanael 

<11x8”, archival digital print, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: PAGAN ON THE BEACH 2001
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model- Arian Levanael 

<11x8”, archival digital print, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: OSCAR WILDE'S 172ND BIRTHDAY TEA PARTY

RICK CASTRO & THE PURPLE CIRCUIT 

invite you to Oscar Wilde's 172nd birthday tea party

The Green Carnation was popularized in 1892 when Oscar Wilde instructed friends and actors to wear a dyed green carnation on their lapels for the opening night of his play Lady Windermere's Fan.  

 Because homosexuality was criminalized and dangerous during the Victorian era wearing the unnatural dyed green flower served as a subtle secret code and quiet signal among queer men. 

 Wilde also suggested the color represented artistic subtlety artificiality over nature and the ideals of the aesthetic movement.

Talk by Bill Kaiser on The Green Carnation

music by Edward Salm & Eric Anderson

 tea & cucumber sandwiches will be served

followed by Oscar's favorite princess cake

October 19th, 2026

4pm

RSVP is required- antebellum@earthlink.net

The historic columbarium at

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

6000 Santa Monica Blvd 

Hollywood, 90028

ask at front gate for info & directions

free parking!

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME

 9/15/2026/TUESDAY/4:04AM

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME 2022
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original editorial for @pornceptual
model- @drakelabry

<11x8” archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME 2022
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original editorial for @pornceptual
model- @drakelabry

<11x8” archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME 2022
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original editorial for @pornceptual
model- @drakelabry

<11x8” archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME 2022
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original editorial for @pornceptual
model- @drakelabry

<11x8” archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME 2022
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original editorial for @pornceptual
model- @drakelabry

<11x8” archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME 2022
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original editorial for @pornceptual
model- @drakelabry

<11x8” archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME 2022
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original editorial for @pornceptual
model- @drakelabry

<11x8” archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: TABLEAU OF THINGS TO COME 2022
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original editorial for @pornceptual
model- @drakelabry

<11x8” archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

RICK CASTRO: CHRISTEENE

 9/14/2026/MONDAY/7:46AM

RICK CASTRO: CHRISTEENE 2021
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original photographs & interview for @anothermagazine
model- Paul Soileau aka @christeene_official

<11x8”, archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6>

As a performer CHRISTEENE delivers sexual, in-your-face commentary, infusing “drag terrorism” with non-heteronormative gender roles and sex. Performances can include the usage of, but not limited to, butt plugs tied to balloons then released from their arse, bizarrely intimate confessionals, wardrobe malfunctions and pissed-off communications on the state of everything.

RICK CASTRO: CHRISTEENE 2021
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original photographs & interview for @anothermagazine
model- Paul Soileau aka @christeene_official
mural- @rinaldohopf

<11x8”, archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6> ____________________ [CHRISTEENE writes in the slang dialect of the Deep South, which is part of their persona.)

Rick Castro: What’s your birthday?

CHRISTEENE: SPRING.

RC: What sign are you?

C: THA TWINZ RIDE ON THA BACK OF MY BULL, I AM A CUSP IN HEATED MOTION.

RC: Do you believe in birth signs?

C: JUST MINE.

RC: What’s your ethnic background?

C: DIRT.

RC: Where did you grow up? What was it like?

C: THA WOODS AN’ THA DIRT. IT WUZ QUIET AN’ KOOL, I COULD HEAR MY THOUGHTS AN’ MY MUSIK WAS ANIMAL CHATTER AN’ WATER RIPPLES. 

RC: What was your childhood like?

C: I KNOW NO CHILDHOOD.

RICK CASTRO: CHRISTEENE 2021
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original photographs & interview for @anothermagazine
model- Paul Soileau aka @christeene_official
mural- @rinaldohopf

<11x8”, archival digital print, signed on verso, edition of 6> ____________________ [CHRISTEENE writes in the slang dialect of the Deep South, which is part of their persona.) 

RC: What was your first sexual experience?

C: NATURE.

RC: Where did you go for schooling?

C: HUH?

RC: Were you homeschooled?

C: ARE U DRUNK?

RC: Were you ever in a band?

C: I BEGAN ’BOUT TWO YEARZ AGO PATIENTLY WERKIN’ WITH TALENTED MUSICIANS WHO TRAVEL IN AN’ OUT OF MY SONGS AN’ STAGE SHOWZ. I’M SLOWLY CRAFTING MY FAMILY OF INSTRUMENTS THAT CAN BEST EXPRESS MY BRAIN AN’ FEELINZ BY THOSE FOLKS TALENTED ENOUGH TO RANGLE AN’ PLAY THOSE TOOLS OF SOUND.

RC: When did you start with performance art? Do you call it performance art?

C: IZ JUST WHAT I DO AN’ I DONE IT FROM THA START, IZ WHY I’M HERE. CALL IT ALL THA THINGZ U WANT, IT STILL REMAINS THA SAME.

RC: Where was your first performance? What was it like? How did it go?

C: I PERFORMED ON UH OLD WOODEN STAGE IN THA BACKYARD OF UH DYKE’S HOUSE IN AUSTIN TEXAS FER UH GATHERIN’ CALLED GAYBIGAYGAY. I THREW MAH BUTT PLUG THAT I HAD JUZ PULLED OUTTA MAH ASS INTO THA CROWD AN’ SOME FOLKS GOT MAD AN’ SAID IT WUZ UNSANITARY BUT THEIR DOGS SURE DID GO TO TOWN ON IT.