Silva was the recipient of Exponent II’s Award in the 2021 Certain Women Art Show in Salt Lake City. You were trained as a painter, and now you use paper cutting as your technique. Why the shift? Actually, I went to paper gradually and without intending to — around 2010. I was attending a weekly workshop 25 km from my house to paint and experiment a little with other techniques. I traveled to the workshop by train and subway. I painted in large formats, and it ended up being very cumbersome to arrive with the work intact in crowded subways. I think the […]
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