"She is an artist who is successful at the extraordinarily difficult task of capturing a building without flattening it or turning it into yet another pretty picture. Her work reveals architecture's inner intensity by materialising the phenomenon of light, texture and density, all within a composition that is wholly conceptual."
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in: Jonathan Glancey, in The dream life of buildings, The Guardian, 15 April 2002
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