Self-portrait from the year 2000 - when Panmela Castro was just 18 years old - despite being a work from her youth, is a masterpiece.

It was created based on the proposal of her mentor Marcelo Duprat, from whom she inherited a deep taste for the study of color and tone in painting. Painted by observing her image in a mirror (digital facilities did not exist at the time), the work was created from a black background, with the layers of low mixtures of paint illuminating and creating the shapes of the portrait. Some points of saturation bring the eye to some highlighted parts, such as the bone formation of the face marked by the black structure of his ancestors from Costa da Mina, in Africa.