We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Elvira Carrasco a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Elvira thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Do you wish you had started sooner?

I would have started my artistic career earlier. As a child I was surrounded by art and culture, my father is an artist too and taught me to draw and paint. However, it was not until I was 24 years old that I decided to dedicate myself professionally to art.

Today, art is my passion, my life. I would have started doing exhibitions or doing research earlier, although I studied History of Art at university and that helped me a lot when it came to completing my training.

I believe that it is important to have cultural and artistic training in order to contribute something more to the history of art. It is a difficult road, but I am proud to have taken the step.

I think that if I had started my artistic career earlier, today I would be on a higher step in terms of evolution, but I fully trust my abilities to reach the next level soon.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I consider myself a multidisciplinary artist. I work photography, sculpture, painting, performance and fashion.

In the art world, I’m known for a project called “Faces Project”. In it, I take my own face as a canvas (body art), and paint it with very expressive colors and shapes.

After the painting process, I take a picture with the camera, a self-portrait.
The result is photographic, the process is pictorial.
My project is for life, I want to continue investigating the self-portrait until the end. See the evolution of my features and painting.

After years of researching with my own face, I decided to expand the project and paint other people’s faces, “Faces Project People”. I find it very interesting to work with people’s energy and see their reactions.
The canvas is the person and is living the experience first hand, see how I work, my emotions and sensations at the moment of creation.

My work is unique, a form of portraiture never seen before.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

My main goal when creating is to let my soul flow. I consider art as something therapeutic that has freed me countless times from bad moments.

After doing something that you are passionate about and makes you happy, you have to take the step of sharing it with others and making them part of your art.

My main goal is to be able to live doing what I like. Every day I am grateful to have the wonderful job that I have and I am grateful to be surrounded by people I admire and love.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to unlearn to be afraid. Fear is the only thing that stops people from wanting to achieve an objective, a goal or a dream.

I have been a very shy girl since I was a child. I have spent many years hiding who I really was and wanting to go unnoticed.
Today, I have learned not to be so afraid and let myself go through life in a freer way.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.elviracarrasco.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/elviracarrascoart
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/elviracarrascophoto
• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/elvira-carrasco-937b8b6b
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCijt8kt69zn4qM0x56qS8HA

Image Credits
FACES PROJECT, SELF-PORTRAITS