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Tracy Bettencourt runs her hands across various sizes of stretched canvas, creating bold and swirling techniques, brilliant colors and shapes that morph into art she’ll never see.
Her world is black. But not dark.
Bettencourt, the artist behind artwork currently on display at Artlink in Strawberry Alley, lost her sight 14 years ago to retinitis pigmentosa. It was only then that she taught herself how to paint, her way of refusing to let her condition win.