'Growing Woman'
C UBAN-BORN ARTIST Elsa Mora creates intricate, often profound, sometimes whimsical papercuts, paintings, drawings and sculptures. When we first saw Elsita’s art, we were stunned by the way it spoke to the deep feelings we have for our sisters, our mothers and our children, and the way we each relate to the natural world.
We had to know where she finds her inspiration, but it wasn’t until we reached out to Elsita that we learned that it was her older sister, Ileana, we sensed in certain images, a sibling still living but lost to Elsita a decade ago in the complex tangle of schizophrenia. “She was my mentor,” says Elsita, but as Ileana’s illness progressed, there was always this acute awareness, too: “We had to deal with the possibility of her going away forever all the time.” Love, with impending loss. A story of two sisters.
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