Puertas, One woman's journey through to the other side - by Chantz Perkins (Paperback)

About the Book

Part love letter to Los Angeles, part memoir, Puertas, offers the reader a personal perspective in photographs and glimpses of a journey as artist.

Illustrations note: 30 color photographs

Book Synopsis

Why would a woman move from her home of Los Angeles, leaving everything behind except her paintings and move to Europe?

In her refreshingly honest memoir Puertas, artist/author Chantz Perkins leads the reader through the doorways of her life: Different cities, through financial crisis of 2007, parental death and illness, Perkins uses her photography and prose to tell her innermost thoughts and observations.

A nostalgic love letter to her home, Puertas is heartfelt, personal reflections of a 30 year career as artist with dashes of immigrant observation in her search to find, what, really is success? An homage to the unique sort of courage it takes to follow your dream.

"Doors. Puertas. To keep safe. To keep out. An entry into a new journey in life."

"She is home to me, this city. And as I do, as I have with a lover, I question why I ever left her."

Illustrations note: 30 color photographs

Review Quotes

Chantz Perkins, an internationally recognized and well-respected artist, takes an interesting

diversion with this unusual book. T. Gibson

Chantz Perkins invites the reader to join her on a brief journey in which

she uses her words and photography instead of paint and stone to express her unique

observances of daily life. T. Gibson