Cuban artist Elsa Mora is a multi-talented lady. Her sculptures (sometimes made of paper, sometimes built from plants) are whimsical and happy and just make you feel good. She’s also an accomplished illustrator and painter, but today, I just want to explore her 3-D works.
When she was 16 and applying for her first official I.D., she learned that her birthday was May 8 instead of May 9 like she’d always believed. It turned out her mother chose to celebrate Elsa’s birthday as May 9 because it was Mothers’ Day the year she was born. Somehow, her takeaway from this was that she could be anything she wanted. Not really sure how she got there, but I’m nonetheless glad she did.
I hope you enjoy her lovely work as much as I did!
October 6, 2014 at 8:40 am
What talent. These are gorgeous. How did you come upon her work?
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October 6, 2014 at 9:03 am
I wander the internet looking for pretty things, and when I find them, I do a little happy dance and start writing!
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October 6, 2014 at 9:22 am
These are just beyond awe-inspiring. Wow. I used to have a “thing” for cutting tiny designs out of paper (tiny Santa graphic from a newsletter & I once made a fishtank out of an empty Tic Tac box) but nothing as beautiful as these… 🙂
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October 6, 2014 at 9:32 am
Those sound great!
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October 6, 2014 at 4:19 pm
I love her blog. Just spent half a day there. Come review time, I may be blaming you for a crappy bonus.
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October 6, 2014 at 4:24 pm
This is one of those Sorry/Not Sorry occasions. Whoopsie.
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October 8, 2014 at 10:34 am
I wonder how, or if, the botanical ones are preserved.
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October 8, 2014 at 10:58 am
I think their ephemeral nature is part of the point she’s making, so I assume they aren’t preserved at all. Maybe she just photographs them, then throws their respective parts into a bowl in her bathroom.
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January 31, 2017 at 7:34 am
Reblogged this on The Art Dive and commented:
Joyful paper sculptures and botanical whimsical portraits from Cuban artist Elsa Mora
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