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Nancy Breakstone is a contemporary American photographer. Her focus involves discovering abstract patterns in the commonplace and often overlooked. Breakstone’s Art of the Ocean, is a continuing seven-year project capturing the sand patterns fleetingly cut by the Pacific into Costa Rica’s volcanic beaches. Her latest project was to find and photograph abstractions inside Aero Saarinen’s TWA Hotel at JFK Airport, NY. Born in 1948, she lives and works in Connecticut.