Elsa Mora
A native of Cuba,
Elsa Mora says that her home city of El Vedado played a very important part of
her career because of the energy it has a because of the good sense of humor
the people of the city possess. During
the 1990's Cuba, and Mora's home town, were visited by many curators and art
collectors looking for artist. It were
these visits that led to Mora's discovery.
Mora became
obsessed with paper cutting when she was a child. Her mother would not let her cut her long
hair, so she made a wig out of paper with long curls. Mora then placed it on her head and cut the
wig instead of her hair. After this she
started making paper dolls and her art has transformed into something much
more. She transforms an ordinary sheet
of flat paper into three dimensional, layered sculptures. You can see the influence her homeland has on
work still today.
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