About

Perla’s work explores the alchemy of light and shadow through interdisciplinary installation, artist books, prose, ritual objects, and immersive environments. Her practice navigates the transformation of energy, inherited belief systems, and self-authored truths through what she describes as “portals of barbed wire karmic stickiness.” Rooted in personal mythology, psychology, mysticism, and the natural world, her work transforms intimate emotional landscapes into tactile field notes on memory, grief, devotion, and the evolution of the soul.

 

Beginning as a book artist, Perla’s practice gradually expanded into installation work, though language remains the origin point of every piece. Each work begins with prose before unfolding into pages, objects, environments, sound, shadow, and ritual gesture—reflecting her belief that a book can take any form. Her recent works examine early childhood indoctrination, inherited symbolism, and talismanic objects that simultaneously carry tenderness and pain, inviting viewers into spaces where darkness becomes a site of transformation rather than permanence.