Elsa Mora‘s papercut illustrations, paintings, embroidery and drawings all well from a deep sense of the personal as universal and the magic of creation. Her papercuts in particular are wonderfully delicate, ornate and magical while her latest series of paintings titled, ‘Femina Plantarum’, bring to mind the work of Frida Kahlo, a kind of naive folk art aesthetic that is at once disarming and charming, full of rich colours, symbols and symmetry. Her life is an interesting one and on her site she’s more than happy to reflect on growing up in poverty in Cuba before moving to LA where she now lives with her husband and kids.
Here’s what she has to say about her process:
By means of creation I live different experiences linked to a state of sensitivity in which I’m constantly amazed by everything. To give things new meanings, to adopt an open, abstract position that leads me to freer sensations are some of the motives that drive me to go over my work again and again, so I have tried to conform a language which permits me to live my time in my own way.