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No place like home

SHE SITS, PERCHED birdlike at Pittwater’s edge, absorbed in her work and the peace of the landscape, on a beach accessible only at low tide to locals in the know.

The life of artist Michelle Ball echoes that of the short-tailed shearwaters that migrate around the world, only to return to the very same burrow. She was born in Ingleside, not far as the crow flies from where

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