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Eyesight Is Her 'Superpower': How The Pandemic Led An Artist To Publicly Embrace Her Limited Vision

Sandy Goldberg was born with almost zero vision in one eye and extreme nearsightedness in the other.
Sandy Goldberg sits in a special chair at the National Museum of Qatar, one of her many museum clients around the world. (Courtesy of Sandy Goldberg)

From the day she was born, it was clear something was up with Sandy Goldberg.

“One of my eyes was turned so far in that the colored part of it was barely showing,” says Goldberg. “Just by looking at me, you could see that there was something wrong.”

People with two working eyes see the world in 3D. But without vision in her right eye, Goldberg’s world was flat.

As a kid, she would run into parked cars while bike riding. When trying to pour milk into a

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