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“When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.”

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Bernadette Roberts
Bernadette Roberts

Bernadette Roberts, born in 1931, is a mysterious artist whose life and artistic achievements remain largely unknown. more

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