The encounter with the clay was fortuitous, when she was summoned by the artist Ofelia Murrieta to work in a collaborative project with local workshops in Zacatecas. It was a watershed in his career not only for the arrow to the touch with the earth, but because from that moment he did not release the people with whom he conducted the investigation. However, his link with the north of the country already existed long earlier, as it is originally from Chihuahua, Mexicowhere he developed with his parents, who also helped cement their artistic training: “Since childhood I always had this approach to the workshops; My mother worked with popular cultures, my dad was born in a ranch, so this human part of coexistence and collaboration always had her close to my life. Understanding that human factor is vital because it is more than a business or a simple creative exercise. On the other hand, the aesthetic vision I think I learned through my dad and her gaze from photography, ”said the ceramist.
The Perla Valtierra ceramist is committed to the everyday through beautiful utilitarian pieces that hide a philosophy of life that revalues the human connection through the earth.Luis Garvan
To date he collaborates directly with the Miraluna Workshop and Don Jesús TorresRight hand and complicit of Valtierra to create the pieces that have fallen in love fairs and international publications. The networkignification of knowing how to do far beyond aesthetics, then Each piece presumes a deep philosophy that has to do with rethinking the design from a productive and utilitarian logic free of pretensions and according to the needs of the context.
The Valtierra process is collaborative. He arrives with an idea to the workshop of Don Jesús, with whom he becomes jointly until he obtains the final result that he subsequently sends to the modeling and enameled workshop. The mood and the fruit of the creations of Perla and Don Jesus have managed to inspire the youngest of their daughters, who has a degree in Psychology, but currently works with both in the workshop. In that sense, Valtierra's work has a lot to do with conserving these ancestral practices and translating them into contemporary language from maximum design respectful of the context and that revalue what handmade.
Today, Pearl releases a discreet laugh when thinking about how Pottery Studios They appear in the global creative scene, when their classmates did not find meaning to leave the mastery at a Belgian arts school to open their workshop.