Inquisitive Creatures is series of still-life photographs created for a children's book and sold as fine art prints to museums and private collectors.

About the Series:

Inquisitive Creatures is a story about 4 friends living in an abandoned workshop on a quest to solve one of science’s most difficult problems, time travel. As they set out to build a time machine, they discover that teamwork, persistence and above all friendship are the ingredients that make their dream come true.

Sprinkled throughout the story are gentle references to some of the greatest scientists of all time including Einstein, da Vinci, Newton, Tesla and Galileo.

"Castellana and his partner of 20 years, character designer and prop stylist Linda Montanez, built this world on 4-square-foot sets, everything represented on 1/16th scale, including the characters, floors, windows, furniture, books, pencils, and more.
It’s an entirely new world for Castellana, but his career has forayed into strange lands in the past. His still life portfolio, in addition to commercial and advertising work, includes burning matches posing as stick-figure people, eggs in abstract black-and-white settings, and ice cubes melting into dramatic conceptual sculptures.

- Professional Photographer Magazine

The Inquisitive Creatures photographs were recently published in Communication Art's Photography Annual #61, Creative Quarterly's Journal of Art & Design #59, Professional Photographer Magazine, Creative Boom, Dodho Magazine and Eye of Photography Magazine.

Most recently, the Mulvane Art Museum and Asheville Art Museum acquired several photographs from the Inquisitive Creatures series for their permanent collection.