Carola Perla
Peripheral ARTeries
Thanks for your time and for sharing with us your thoughts, Carola. My last question deals with your future plans: what direction are you moving in creatively? I have read that you are currently working on your second novel, Humboldt's Riches... Would you disclose something of this ongoing project for our readers?
“Humboldt’s Riches” is a sort of Heart of Darkness adventure tale, set in the Peruvian Amazon during the 1980 guerilla uprisings, and is based on true events in my own life. While my installations are one aspect of my creative urges, my fiction is the outlet for what is most personal and candid. The idea for this book has lived with me for a long time, and I am eager to share it, and to explore the different auto-biographic elements in both my writing and the accompanying “Konzeption” series. This series, as I mentioned, will be more figurative, whimsical, and incorporate new materials and formats (vellum, plastic, fabric, etc), hopefully getting ever closer to presenting my inner ‘prose’ life to others - me, turned inside out.
An interview by peripheral_arteries@dr.com
A-Mended Conversation II, alternative view 2013
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