A new mother in 2007, Argentine artist Susana Silva felt joyful, but overwhelmed.

She had spent several years studying and practicing her craft in art and painting, but suddenly she felt at a loss of physical and mental strength to pick up the paintbrush and continue.

She was “completely exhausted.”

“I thought I could no longer do anything,” Silva recently told the Deseret News. “I had no brain, no energy.”

Nearly two decades later, Silva said she recognizes it was this precise period of time that pushed her to test her possibilities, eventually leading her to develop her skills in hand-cut paper — a delicately intricate technique that has earned her multiple awards, and most recently, enabled her to collaborate with her artist brother on an exhibition that has traveled to New York

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