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Pas de Deux

restore a dilapidated 10th-century building in a tiny French village started with a dream. In the spring of 2020, the Belgian-born artist woke up with a vivid image of a home in Provence and took it as a fait accompli. “I bought all my houses because I saw them in a dream, as clearly as a photo,” she says matter-of-factly. “I always take dreams very seriously. They are so important.” Eva was in South America at the time, in the rural plains of

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